skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did or did not the Trump administration restructure the NSC, causing those responsible for preparing for and responding to pandemics and similar events to exit the organization?

If so, were or were not equivalent positions created in the new structure and filled?

Those are the only questions that matter—what is or is not said about any of it in news media is irrelevant. So I'll ask you, do you have answers to those questions that conflict with the ones published by Snopes? Or, if not, do you have additional questions and answers that show how those questions aren't the whole story?

If not, to be perfectly frank, fuck off. It beggars belief that people like you are on here peddling sophomoric wisdom about media bias and backpedaling whataboutism in the face of this crisis.
It's the lunar tide.

https://bowie.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggfc/tides/intro.html
Available evidence doesn't support your claims.
This is a mistake perpetuated from old array languages.

Evaluation from left to right is more natural to people using latin alphabet.

It's totally arbitrary anyways. I suspect the only reason why there is right to left evaluation in APL family is to support assignment like this:

x: 1 + 2 + 3

which would have to be the following in left to right

1 + 2 + 3 :x
But Classes and Objects are not the only way to create boundaries, and may not be the best way.
ElixirWizards S3E16 Devon Estes from Sketch on Benchee, Performance and Training
>>All refused.

Did they say why? I'm not surprised the large store did, but the "old man in a tiny office" type shouldn't have - why did they refuse? The only reason I can think of is if the battery is soldered on, but otherwise how is it different than replacing any other type of battery. I know my Edifice watch uses a regular button-type battery, it's just rechargable, but it's not soldered on or anything.
For instance, Jeffrey Epstein.
I think it depends on what you want to accomplish with the whiteboard.

If you just want to capture a list of ideas, google docs will let people collaboratively edit a document or you could just have one person share their screen and capture verbal ideas.

If you want to diagram things, pen and paper + a camera can be just as effective if not more effective than a whiteboard. Often it's better to have the whole team do a sketching exercise and share their results which isn't really effective on a single whiteboard.

More importantly, whiteboards are never going to be effective for remote organizations for the same reason hallway conversations / voice chat aren't effective. It builds knowledge silos as only the people who were there understand the context of the whiteboard even if you photograph it.
This is what I remember a lot of too. While they are little hacks which are imperfect, they bought companies enough time to resolve the issue more thoroughly.
The total risk is 2k. So, the puts could end up worthless at the expiry date.
Now I'm doubting if car seats are chairs too...
SimbirSoft Proud to Be Named a Top Android Developer in 2020
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22517397

Original source: https://twitter.com/PalliThordarson/status/12365493051895971...
I wonder if CPAP/BiPAP machines can be software hacked into ventilators. Some BiPAP models are almost identical to those labeled as "ventilators."
Better line numbers is huge. Actually huge for people leaning rust. In a pretty big way it's like the difference between Java where you get a stack trace (where you mostly care about the live number all the way at the bottom) and C++ where you don't. When I tutored students in college that was one of the most salient differences to students who were just starting out. They would say things like "C++ is hard because you don't even get a stack trace". Sure, that's a naive view of the differences between the languages, but it's a real view that beginners see.
Webdriver.io has been pretty good with onboarding QA engineers. wdio-cli, install additional services plug and play, excellent documentation to the point where very low coding experience QA can get a project up and running easily.

They have a Gitter also that is one of the more active I've seen. I see people from other OS projects come and ask questions because they're more likely to get a faster response in wdio's than other OS.
My first programming teacher emphasized that this at-the-time-newfangled "object-oriented" programming was only a way of organizing the code, you still had the same data and functions.

Use classes, don't use classes. It doesn't matter.
I disagree with your framing of suicide as an emotional outburst.
matches! looks quite useful, I’ve been looking for a replacement to Swift’s ~= operator and this should do nicely.
Climate scientists should pay close attention to how much carbon emissions were cut due to corona virus and if it had any impact on climate changes. The world wide economy pretty much tanked for a few weeks, flights were grounded and people reduced carbon emission as a result. If none of this had any impact on climate change, nothing we can do voluntarily will ever have. Lastly, climate scientists should not be flying in jet planes to conferences.
It's called the Nice Model:

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

Edit: Basically, the gas giants started really close into the sun but later moved outwards. We see a lot of other systems with gas giants close into their suns right now. In the Nice model, the larger gas giants had their orbits move slowly outwards, causing havoc in our system. This is possibly when the Moon was formed. It's still a lively debate, as we have not yet found Planet X yet.

TLDR: Fund NASA more.
this has been studied already in china but the rest of the world ignores. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coro...
Where is that quotation from?
As a former employee, I don't agree with that. I know it's the prevailing sentiment on HN, but it's not the truth.
CSGO just broke their record # of players at one time, at around 900,000[1].

Steam alone regularly has over 10,000,000 people logged in at a time [2].

I think saying "Adults dont want a tower PC" is a pretty wide sweeping statement. I agree about Alyx. If they release a full length game that has the same level of quality that Half-life 2 had, with the same level of mod and customization support, that is going to be the tipping point. If VR is still a sub-niche in gaming/PCs, we won't see it takeoff for another 20+ years. But we may see it become the new standard.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/808630/csgo-number-playe....

[2]https://store.steampowered.com/stats/
It was very much real, lots of effort was spent to make sure everything worked correctly, especially around older billing systems which used only 2-digit years in fixed width records.

Because of all the preparation and upgrades being done, I think only incident we had when Y2k migration manager sent out "all clear"-email after rollover - Unix mail client he used formatted date on email as "01/01/19100" - though I suspect he knew of the issue and didn't upgrade on purpose just to make a point.
Link Targets and 3.2.5
Bacteria are considered life and you kill them by the thousands daily. You meant conscious life?
So your argument is, because the travel ban doesn’t have a big impact it’s not flattening the curve?
Many people have clearly not incorporated even the best-case predictions for COVID-19 into their expectations. Even if Goldman is aware of this, it's probably hard for them to add an explicit "people are being dumb about coronavirus" coefficient to their model.
Their software is in a majority of PCs not due to pure market forces but because of active efforts in the 90's, through OEM contracts, to prevent operating systems other than Windows to be generally available to the public through non-technical channels.
One of PGs most influential essays, at least for me. If anything, the emergence of cloud services made start-ups even cheaper since 2008.
And in that vein, no one (sane) is writing their own date libraries anymore, there's no reason to try to customize that for your application.
Wind and solar will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world
Perhaps I should say "That's how it used to be".
Likely to free her? You figured that out how exactly? From the article and how the civil contempt works, she would be held indefinitely, until the reasons for contempt charge would end. That is probably until the trial with Assange in US ends. And it didn't even start yet.
C++ does give you a stack trace; you just need to set some things up before it does (namely, use a debugger). Rust does the same except it tells you what you need to do (set an environment variable).
Seems likely to me personally but only time will tell. In any case it probably won't be until after the initial panic & quarantine, when regular flights and travel and economic activity resume
IBM files a lot of patent because (at least when I was there many years ago), employees and their management chain have strong economic incentives to file anything. Even interns were encouraged to file patents, and as a student it's a great way to beef up your resume. Ironically, even between technology professionals, the patents one files at IBM are great marketing material on the resume.

IBM marketing itself as 'the most innovative' does work on the vast majority of the world that isn't in technology.
Exactly what I needed - thanks PG. Didn't really know what to make of the current situation.

Another gem that always gets me going:
http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html
Docker: Understanding how images are formed
Kids will be dropped with their grandparents, as I stated before.

And medical staff needs to stay home and take care of the kids too?
Buying toilet paper to last a few weeks is preparing,a few months is panic
I read that part as slightly tongue in cheek. No, it won't be the end of the world, but it will be the end of the usefulness of that hardware.
Trans people are at a significantly increased risk of suicide, so you have to weight it against that.
Who cares about this weirdo?
An excellent article on type-driven design and development was posted on HN [1][2], as darkkindness put it "Encode invariants in your data, don't enforce invariants on your data"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21476261
[2] https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
It's really very-very fast, and no need for external schema registry. And it's really as simple as JSON. Has great language support.

https://github.com/thekvs/cpp-serializers#results

That said, currently I don't work with it in any projects. Apparently it hasn't really caught on.
And who says "lick my vagina"?
You actually don't need types or classes to do this. You could use design by contract, which is what I've done in Python and Perl, neither of which have very fancy type systems compared to something like Haskell.

With design by contract you can put in whatever fancy constraints you want on function parameters and return values, and those will be enforced.

As far as objects go, they're much more useful for me as just a means of passing state. Rather than using a bunch of global variables or having to pass in a ton of function arguments, I can just use an object which contains all the state I need.

Of course, having lots of state can usher in its own set of problems, and there's something to be said for trying to make your code as stateless as possible. But sometimes you need state, and maybe even a lot of it.
Your point about the software ecosystem is very good. I think the advantage you're talking about stems mostly from how Hololens is a first-class Windows 10/10X platform now, serving as one of their flagship new platforms for their new OS. It was clear from early on they wanted Windows Holographic to be clear extension/continuation of their goal for UWP to be the new write-once, run-everywhere platform (even if that goal was a bit aspirational/unrealistic).

That positioned Hololens as a more competent general-purpose computing platform. That's a valuable perspective to have on what AR/XR is supposed to look like: new, but not entirely new, and flexible enough to be able to run the old software.
Is there some sort of group-defense, where several sue-ees group together to contest a ridiculous patent ?

I guess the main difficulty is not the legal framework, but the business framing
That is a very good point. On the other hand there are a couple of other factors that might be at play. There is the Apple Tax of $99 for a developers license as well as requiring a MAC in order to develop an App. Perhaps not a big deal.

There is also Apple's policy against taking in App purchases without paying Apple a percentage (is it 30%?). This is the reason you can't use your Amazon Prime Video App to buy a movie - Amazon does not want to pay. Apple cannot enforce this rule against PWA's.

I think Apple benefits from this in two ways: first it encourages the 30% payment, and in the cases where companies won't pay (netflix, amazon prime for example) it provides a barrier that makes their own offering more attractive.
> The purpose it was originally intended to be used for doesn't make sense in a world where most new technology is just software, and software is incredibly easy to copy and duplicate.

The very first patent was to duplicate an existing process (the loom) and have a monopoly to produce it.

I keep hearing this argument from patent proponents, but patents have never in their history been ostensibly for good.
They're the strange matter of the biological world :)
Professionals prescribe these long-term to people, even though something like 5/7 cases never get good results.
The #1 complaint I always see with classes is due to inheritance. When classes inherit from classes that inherit from other classes, you can very easily end up with a tangled web of methods over-riding and extending other methods, and run into all sorts of unexpected behaviors and difficulties wrapping your head around what is going on.

This is why (at least in the Ruby world), it's generally considered best practice to avoid using inheritance and just use mixins instead (whenever possible).

Completely avoiding classes because you are using them incorrectly is kind of like throwing the baby out with the dirty bathwater. Don't throw away your tools just because you are using them incorrectly!
There are 40mm and 36mm variants; some patterns available in only one of the sizes. Frankly even the 40mm model is optically small thanks to its understated design; it's got two rather unobtrusive complications, and one side button. The maximum thickness is significant, but the back side is convex and the rim is reasonably thin, so against your arm it looks about the same as an average self-winder. FWIW, I'm very happy with an alternative wristband - the black/gray silicone one which normally goes with Sapphire version.
That wouldn't fly where I live, there are a set of rules to make sure the website can be used by anyone and a company can be fined for breaking too many of the guidelines[1]. It's called "universal design" (or universell utforming in Norwegian)

It's not like they hunt webpages that are breaking the law, but since I have carpal tunnel syndrome excessive scrolling is painful and I've been able to make a few local webpages change just by emailing them with the guidelines. The government even provides a test-suite [2] for your web page.

I've seen plenty of the pages you mention that could use a touch of this :)

[1] https://uu.difi.no/om-oss/english

[2] https://uu.difi.no/krav-og-regelverk/testprosedyrar-nettstad... (Norwegian)
TBH, if I were running an all-remote company, I'm not sure how hard I would try in general to match comp with big Silicon Valley employers. It's actually not clear to me that GitLab really does either. The pay scales for other popular cities are only about 10-20% below SF.

The phenomenon where of Googles/Facebooks/etc. offering mostly very attractive comp in spite of Bay Area CoL is actually relatively recent. Going back a couple of decades I looked at some employment options in Silicon Valley and the comp uplift wouldn't have covered the higher CoL relative to Massachusetts. And the companies freely acknowledged this.
IIRC someone did some analysis on political accounts that did nothing but high volume retweets supportive of a particular cause. Problem is, quite a few of the identified probable bot accounts turned out to be real people that had just become infatuated with the cause...

[Related phenomenon: the UK PM gets lots of obviously bot -like almost identical 'good job Boris' comments on his Facebook account. Trouble is, it appears that it's actually mostly real people with otherwise perfectly normal accounts and verifiable identies: the whole thing probably started off as a forum campaign to rally the appearance of support in an election buildup, but ended up being mostly people who think it's a funny meme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50218615]
Nope. Small private school. I think as I was graduating they started operating some dorms full time.
Sorry, personally I didn't think the article was bad - just that it makes a few political points which might give the impression that the movie took a similar approach. From what I recall, and I watched it again the other night, politics doesn't play a large part in the plot of the movie at all.
Yep. Just look at the top 10 companies by market cap:

1. Microsoft – mostly software

2. Apple – software and hardware

3. Amazon – mostly software

4. Alphabet – mostly software

5. Berkshire Hathaway – not tech

6. Facebook – mostly software

7. Alibaba – mostly software

8. Tencent – mostly software

9. Johnson & Johnson – not tech

10. Visa – not tech, but mostly software
That’s really up to us as taxpayers though isn’t it? ( to push for legislation )
I like that my $300 automatic watch tells me the time and nothing more, not even a date. I don't want it to listen to me; I don't want it to log my location; I don't want it to store my health information on someone else's servers: I just want it to tell me the time.

In five years I'll still have my watch; will you? In a decade I anticipate still having my watch; will you?

Simplicity is luxury.
Come on, we're getting too philosophical. Viruses have genes, internet memes are just ideas.
It would be great if more companies handled patents like Tesla. They obtain patents and then let others use them royalty free
It is in their interest to declare optimism. Pessimism gives one a chance to exit positions on 'green uptrends' and keeps other fees coming in. If people expect a downturn, spending of all sorts is restricted - and fees are questioned.
We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)
I guess I’ve been staring at LLVM CMake output for too long, because I thought this had something to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Hexagon
Okay, I think we differ on the definition of heating here. I consider AC (with heat) a heating solution, and with AC you’re definitely not gonna freeze your butt off. I spent my winters in southern China mostly with a single layer of clothing...

Central heating is lacking in southern China in all but single family homes and high end apartment buildings for sure, but the air conditioner is considered one of the essential household appliances, alongside the refrigerator, television (this one might be on the decline?), etc.

> Now you could provide your own heat, but the majority of Chinese live in apartment blocks that are poorly insulated between units. So to heat your home you have to heat all of your neighbors also, which isn’t going to happen.

Apartments I lived in and visited all have AC (usually more than one unit for moderately sized ones) and I’m pretty sure I never benefited from neighbors’ AC at all, nor did mine benefit them. Insulation may be bad but not that bad. If you were planning in-floor hearting then yeah, you’re probably gonna provide for the household living downstairs too.

> Workplace & HSR station

Ones I’ve been to (Beijing, Shanghai, numerous ones between Shanghai and Nanjing including ones at small towns, etc.) all have indoor AC. Haven’t been to Changsha but kind of hard to imagine it lagging behind too much. Every single office building I’ve been in, too, but I suppose I’ve hardly ever been in a really crappy one.

> Indoor heating is a requirement in much of the states, even in LA (you can skimp on AC, but you can’t rent or sell a unit without heat), and building codes have improved a lot over the years so it’s unlikely you’ll freeze your butt off in something built within the last 30 years.

Not talking about freezing my butt off apparently, just uncomfortably cool to the point of having to wrap myself up even at home. Many houses aren’t built within the last 30 years so there’s that.
Perhaps you could expand on this as I was not involved in Y2K myself. Storing dates with 2 digit years doesn't seem to make much sense as a storage saving mechanism for me.

If you want to store only the year, why not store the years since 1900? That way in a single byte you can go all the way up until 2155. If you want to store it bit-aligned rather than byte-aligned why limit yourself to 00-99? 7 bits can store the year from 1900-2027.

If you want to store day + month + year with a two digit year you have 365.25*100=36525~ options. A two byte value can store up until 65535 options, which can hold all days until 2079.

If you are storing your dates as flat strings (DD-MM-YY or so) then you are already wasting such a large amount of bytes that "storage concerns" seem moot. You are already using 8 bytes to store a date that can be stored in 2 bytes, at that point why not use 10 bytes?

String formatting and display seems more obviously affected to me than storage.
Don't humans operate best on a 23 hour schedule? I wonder if that is an evolutionary hold over from shorter days.
> ok that's neat, but it's not valid reasoning

Don't forget that more has been done in the history of men by the art of rhetoric than by a dialectic, that emotion moves people in force, not reason.

...

Also, that nature is not limited by human imagination.
You know if your did less FUD there's a chance people may actually engage in a conversation with you.

Anyone from enterprise knows his much of a timesaver amt is. I make a call andi don't have to wait for the IT dude to appear on my desk- he clicks a few buttons from his desk and my problem is fixed.
The music has stopped. The $10bn price is nothing to do with the product, it is just a negotiating tactic meant to the hold up the price. If they are lucky, they will sell for $2bn, and whoever buys them will end up writing down to $100m or so. It is over.
If you think that's bad, go to Aleppo Syria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch
Once rotation gets slow enough, the orbital period becomes an important factor in further change.

On its face, it is surprising that rotational direction can change, but rotational momentum is conserved not by individual bodies, but by the whole, interacting system, subject also to conservation of energy. So, momentum and energy trade around between bodies in complicated ways.
Access control management system for Moscow State University supercomputer
Yeah, Danish groceries really can't compete with Sweden's superior selection. I think it's better than it used to be as the grocery store duopoly is under siege by Norwegian and German chains.
Years ago the University of Oregon did research on bacteria and hand washing.

Their finding? It's not soap, it's scrubbing in water.

Scrubbing hands under water did all the work. Neither anti-bacterial agents or soap had almost any effects at all.

I imagine it's not unlike why a stream is safe to drink but a non-moving puddle is not.
Yeah, you have to run a server. When a process exits, all its mmap'd pages are reclaimed. Just like any other memory.
What's weird though, is like why didn't they patent the relational database? No one disputes that was an innovation, or its provenance at IBM.

I guess software patents just didn't exist then.
This should be noise. COVID-19 will be a big hit, though.