skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It wasn't really related to the dotcom bust per se. But the falloff in Y2K spend was part of the overall drop in IT spend on consultants, system refreshes, etc. We use dot-bomb as a shorthand but there were clearly a number of things that happened in the same general timeframe that made it something of a perfect storm.
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It is not only manufacturers. Cellphone Network Operators are part of the problem.

Our B2B customers are in many cases Network operators.

Occasionally they request tens of thousands of unlock/repair requests for phones from competing networks for which they have won an enterprise tender.

Love/Hate relationship.
What do you mean, "no treatment"? Chinese used lopinavir+ ritonavir combination to a great effect, it's just that those drugs have quite a number of possible side effects, plus they're not officially blessed as COVID-19 treatment.
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looks like it was discussed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20250401
There are several arguments in that comment that are fair and reasonable, sometimes. However, they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. We should not allow owner-hostile vendors to hide behind them as excuses for measures like lock-in mechanisms and planned obsolescence that are not necessary.

If an item really does have the potential to become harmful in some way if it is not properly used and maintained, the burden should be on the vendor and/or manufacturer to demonstrate that in order to justify any restrictions on its use or maintenance. Such demonstrations and restrictions should be subject to regulatory oversight by consumer protection agencies or similar bodies. If they are found to be unjustified by a competent authority then the burden should be on the vendor and/or manufacturer to either make things right or compensate those who bought the product (including reasonable consequential losses, not just the purchase price).
That doesn’t necessarily mean a plane designed entirely be civil servants would be better.
I bought a few dumbphones from Amazon because I am scared that smartphones will be so pervasive and that dumbphones will be slowly phased out and you will be unable to buy them anymore. Smartphones are difficult to repair because the circuitry is hermetically sealed and you need specialist tools to open them up and tinker. Dumbphones, not so much. The parts are accessible and can be swapped out with working parts easily.
Your sense of which is intuitive, isn't universal. When we say Move this over there, it's left-to-right.

> why the higher-level syntax has never made its way to lower level ASM has baffled me.

It has. In the AT&T x86 assembly syntax, MOV is left-to-right. (In the Intel syntax, though, it's right-to-left.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X86_assembly_lang...
I didn't even mention the words "licensing" and "banning."

If a house, a car, a shirt, or a phone is offered to you for sale, and you buy it, then you should own it.

FWIW, I agree with you. Please don't attack a straw-man!
It literally is-a job. If you mean what distinguishes it from non-apprenticeship jobs, then (at least in the USA) the government declares [1] that it is: "PAID JOB + EDUCATION + CREDENTIALS".

[1]: https://www.apprenticeship.gov/employers
IBM and Redhat (although I guess nowadays they're pretty related) seem to do a lot of kernel work. There are probably even more that I cant named sleep deprived, but you can throw in something like "linux kernel developer" in a job search board to get an idea
You mean your private levying instrument.
Lets say that the government and DWD developed equivalent apps but DWD did it at half the cost. If the government app has to charge users based on its costs, then it will be twice as expensive, and lose out to the more efficient private company. But if they are just allowed to give it out to consumers for free (which a private company can't do) then it will dominate the market even though it is not the best use of resources. I assume that is the rationale for this law.
>The real question is, why are they going to vote for him again despite his failure to deliver on any of his promises..

Well, let's look at what he has delivered so far...

He ended the Korean War.
He pulled out of Syria.
He pulled out of Afghanistan.
ISIS is dead and the Taliban wants peace.
He's building the wall.
He brought jobs back and created millions more jobs. People don't have to depend on welfare anymore.
Unemployment rate is at it's lowest.
He did prison reform, and many people have been released already.
He established economic zones in the Black community to help small black business owners (so that they pay lower taxes).

We are happy with what he has accomplished so far, and that's why they we going to vote for him again in 2020.
Fun fact: The radar in PUBG was based off the Duga radar.
If you’re concerned about reliability and your major concern is “VM uptime”, you’ve got bigger issues. You need redundancy and automatic failover at every level based on your cost benefit analysis.
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If you're not paying them, then it's not an "apprenticeship". The first ingredient in an apprenticeship, according to the U.S. government [1], is that you "Earn a competitive wage from day one".

[1]: https://www.apprenticeship.gov/employers
Who cares about fashion? In 15 years Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Perl, TCL (particularly for building simplistic but effective GUIs), and PHP will all not only be usable, but actively used.
I have programmed in C for a long time (for embedded before everything became ARM+Linux), and unless you have technical reasons to use C for a new project, I would skip it. I like tinkering with the low-levelness of C, but what applications really need that these days unless you're working with hardware/os level stuff?

There's also so much FUD about performance, but reality is that without numbers, you'll never know. Certainly for game development, unless you're working on a cutting-edge game engine, there's little reason to focus on performance first, and even then - most popular modern game engines offer interpreted paths for game logic.

Fear of garbage collectors is also bullshit in most cases. Many don't realise a simple call to free or malloc (or new/delete in C++) can result in just as much unpredictable hick-ups, which is why many games engines use specially tuned memory managers, some even specifically including garbage collectors (see the Unreal Engine for example).

Certainly in game development, flexibility to tune game mechanics is far more important to make a good game than performance, and creating such flexibility in a C application is a lot more complex/more work than in a higher-level language, and you'll end up building very high walls you really don't want to tear down and start over with.
But could that just be the flu.
Scrape off rust, replace chips that have been shorted.

Does depend on chips being available and some knowledge on how to diagnose the damages (e.g.: board schematics).

Here's an example of new age Macbook pro's dying from little water ingress (design oversight). And a combination of knowledge and a simple chip can fix your nearly write off Macbook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahtu1_idVU
In Denmark we increased our testing 10-fold and found 300% more people infected. Our response to that increase has been to shut down the country completely for 2 weeks and expand our governments right to act: Forced entry into private property, forced isolation and treatment, forced testing. If this is all because of an error in the test kit I'm going to be super ticked off.
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Hossenfelder and Palmer have a nice, accessible paper about it:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06462

It makes a strong case IMHO that there is some meat here. The main idea is that Bell inequalities make ~4 assumptions, which Hossenfelder and Palmer argue can be meanifully weakened in precise ways that have the potential for testable predictions.

The paper also spends some time dispelling the FUD that stems from the unfortunate associations made with the name "superdeterminism."

It's only ~20 pages of mostly prose, so if you're interested, I highly recommend the quick read.
I don't want to discourage you, but please don't take your experience as a justification to ignore medical evidence and advice.

Kidney function is most often estimated indirectly, based on measurements of the amount of a chemical called creatine in the blood. Higher functioning kidneys lower creatine levels more effectively. But lowering the amount of creatine generated by your diet, by cutting out animal products, will also lower the creatine measured in your blood. That change in measurement does not reflect an actual improvement in your kidney function, I'm sorry to say.

At lower levels of kidney function, attempting to game the numbers in this way, by minimizing the creatinine you consume and by over-consuming water, could be dangerously misleading. And it shouldn't distract from measures that do stop the decline in kidney function, like blood pressure control and avoidance of certain kidney-damaging meds (e.g. high dose ibuprofen).

Good luck!
That's not the issue. I would have expected them to migrate their libraries to python3 (like every other major python library in the world). Instead they wrote entirely new libraries that aren't remotely the same, requiring a more or less rewrite of our app.
My question was more on legal authority than what actually happened in this particular case.

Does the President have the legal authority to just say "this thing is classified", and legally it is so?
Let's just hope we are more equipped to deal with the Wuhan Virus than we were with the Spanish Flu. I know experts have been training waiting and warning about this type of event since 1918 but our leaders seemed to have screwed the pooch on not letting them do their job and taking their advice.

There are different challenges of course due to the virus itself and the transportation infrastructure today. But there are better tools too. Our governments just need to act appropriately and stay correctly informed.

South Korea is reporting more recoveries than new cases which means it can be extinguished if we take similar measures elsewhere. If South Korea didn't have to worry about new infected entering the country , with those numbers it's on the path to eradication.

Unfortunately in America steps were taken to actively refuse help, like offered early tests from the WHO weeks ago that were rejected by the US so we could instead make them here for whatever reason, which as everyone knows lead to the bad tests and put us far behind in the response in catching this before it got off the ground.

We have all the tools and experts we need but our leaders are going to need to let the experts call the shots and do their job if we are going to avoid the scale of the Spanish Flu.

Once it's past a certain point the strain on the medical industry will cause rises in other preventable diseases and we'll have more problems and deaths than just from Wuhan Virus.
Delphi! Whaaaaat a surprise !

I still miss MFC/windows programming a lot, I think in many ways it's quite efficient.

But for job seeking it's not a good idea, opening for windows gui is quite rare.

Maybe I should setup a web(!!) For lonely job seeker on windows programming / and Delphi/lisp/scheme / all other good oldies forgotten by rest of the world.
I meant well-run as in non-exploitative, not well-run as in finding workers who are "willing" to be underpaid in order to boost profits.
I'm uninformed about the place were I live? I don't know what I smell every day, going to and back to work? You have quite some nerve ;)

Let me tell you some stories about illegal stuff.

A few days ago you could smell chemicals in the air every morning. In the middle of the city. There was a big scandal and they said UK exported their shit here. European style. Nothing really came off of it.

Money talks.
Only in a trivial sense. Quantum Field theories are explicitly local theories, constructed from Langrangians which purposefully have and express Lorentz invariance, exactly to maintain locality.

In any case, quantum field theories are good at predicting stuff but almost certainly not descriptions of the true fundamental dynamics of the universe, given their known and relatively well understood divergences.
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Given that this is <500 lines of assembly this is frankly amazing given the overall complexity of the layout. Very clever.
There is an Australian version of WD-40 called 'start ya bastard'.

https://www.nulon.com.au/products/aerosols/start-ya-bastard-...
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> Linux is not running millions lines of code ... the millions lines are mainly drivers and support for different architecture.

But it's pretty easy to reach into the kernel and access buggy drivers and plenty of other non-essential kernel code (file systems, networking, SMB, etc).

> You can compile a minimal Linux kernel (there is even a kernel configuration for that) and put certain drivers in user-space. Still not as small as sel4 but quite close to it's commercial siblings.

But it still means that any exploit in driver code == total system compromise.
There is a misconception that passion is a singular positive emotion. Remember that sometimes passion can derail you, make you mad and angry. It involves more than one emotion. By all means, find your passion, but don't turn it into an obsession that can derail you.
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It seems like many of the responses to this article are from Rust and other language fans (but mostly Rust). I think many people are reading what they want instead of what the author was trying to convey:

"This is the most important and only real non-negotiable requirement for me; the reliability and portability of the toolchain and the access it provides to system and device interfaces."

Rust isn't exactly reliable. Try to build Rust itself. There are all sorts of issues with resource consumption and parallelism, and it takes more CPU and memory than compiling an entire OS.

Rust's portability is strongly discouraged by the resources it requires. Many platforms REQUIRE cross-compilation because they don't have enough memory, and this makes it hard to say it's easily portable.

If you're a fan, you're easily going to overlook this. You probably don't care that more than half the world doesn't have computers which have the resources to run Rust. That's fine. You also say that people shouldn't be concerned with compiling their own stuff. That's fine, too. But there are people who like to create projects and write software that's as accessible as possible to most people, not just to some people and available to many others just as downloadable binaries.

If you're not the kind of person who wants a free and open software ecosystem where everyone can participate, not just those with the resources to buy fancy, powerful, multigigabyte, multigigahertz, multicore 64 bit CPUs, then Rust is fine for you. If you you care about accessibility to as many people as possible, perhaps you'd come to the same conclusions as the author.
Hmm, I’ll take a look. I think I manually did some munging of the subject line to add “v2” where it seemed appropriate but I probably did it wrong.
> This is different from outright purchase of the car

Even this right is being eroded - see Tesla. You can drive it to the scrap yard, but someone else can't always drive it back out.
From reading the wikipedia article it seems like it was primarily a launch detection system that had a side effect of jamming signal.
We have yearly car inspections ;)
I recommend reading the paper, it goes in to how they address that. In short, they require the participant to at least remember the PIN for the duration of the task.

It is, however, only a five-minute task, so people may not select a super memorable PIN, just one they can remember for the duration of the task.

I think given the design of the task, people may be likely to use their actual device PIN for the task, because although nothing in the task suggests that you should do this, nothing suggests that you should not.
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If we really care about social mobility, it is on the economy that we should focus most of our attention http://archive.vn/YJx0E
Isn't that why people call it late capitalism, because it is in its final phases? Pure, unfettered capitalism has been dwindling for a long time, mostly because of issues like slavery, severe exploitation of workers and forced child labor. Yet still many issues remain.

I would say peak capitalism is colonial times, when companies had private armies and people were enslaved/massacred for profit.
> the Linux kernel is open source

I’m not sure I understand why this is a bad thing?
One use case of validators is for config files.
Maybe the simplest conclusion is that PIN isn't really any secure method. It's somewhat good for keeping most normal people away under normal circumstances. But if you really need to keep things secure than I have a hard time seeing that PIN is o way to go? I mean, passwords are not super good, and PINs (short anyway) are easy worse. There's a reason 2-factor auth exists after all...
Wait, so the actual mortality rate for COVID-19 is much higher than thought because of all the false positives on cases without symptoms?
The cycle can be broken, though. Look at PC sales these days. PCs became good enough to meet most people's everyday home or office needs, and hardly anyone upgrades automatically every 2-3 years any more unless they genuinely need more powerful hardware.

Meanwhile, aggressive marketing particularly to impressionable younger customers has kids and those who influence them raving about a notch or a third camera or whatever it is this week, even though the benefits of these relatively small changes are often negligible. This seems to be more of a cultural problem, possibly with a side order of exploiting vulnerable targets in dubiously ethical ways, than a technical problem.
Germ theory goes back a lot longer. It was well accepted by 1918.
The CDC still isn't recommending them for all adults. At this point I probably won't go to the doctor's office due to transmission risks.
There are also many people who are not being tested, and governments which have a formal policy of not testing people unless they exhibit severe symptoms requiring medical attention
I don't have a link handy to give you but, yes, people have done things like that. Look into Prolog research on compiling.
Stuff's so bad that bailouts are needed, so it's actually good.

And historic bailouts at that: the Fed announced a $1.5T cash injection over three days. Up to that point their entire balance sheet after QE1, QE2, QE3 and the not-QE is was around $4T. All of TARP in 2008 was $400B.

Also, the VIX at 65 implies a ~4% daily change: 65% / sqrt(252 trading days in a year = 4.1%.
I'd be curious to see code that generates an initial state that when running indefinitely can create a stable state which looks as much as possible like a given image.

That would basically be the "living" representation of the image, as far as game of life rules go.

Does this sound solvable by DP?
A lens that keeps everything in focus (aka, large or infinite depth of field) is not desirable for most photography applications; this mainly has important implications for industrial use. It is always interesting to see innovations in this space.
> I think what gdubs was trying to get across is that sure, there are problems, people to blame, etc. but now is not the time.

Now is absolutely the time, because:

> We have to get our act together and handle the situation.

And identifying the problems in the approach to date is an essential element of course correction.

> Now is the time to unite and act.

No, now is the time to identify the problems in our actions to date and course correct to appropriate actions. “Unite and act” is pointless or counterproductive without that.
> I can't imagine an asymptomatic person would put stress on the hospital system?

If s/he is in the hospital in quarantine you must give blankets and food, probably a nurse to check the temperature and symptoms two or three times per day, a medical doctor one a day just to be sure. Perhaps a blood analysis from time to time?

Luckily you don't have to handle visitors because they are in quarantine. (Or there are some visits? What if one patient tries to escape?) You must give an official reports for the family. Now you can assume the patient can send a WhatsApp message to the family saying s/he is fine, but you need probably still an official report. Paperwork, there is also paperwork.

How isolated are them from each other. If they are all together, you can transform the overcrowded false positives in real patients.
"Rust does not run any critical component like Linux Kernel..." - and the only reason why it is not happening (provided that C and Rust have perfect interoperability, more and more C/C++ developers get familiar with Rust) is the fact that Linus Torvalds convinced by voices from Ethernet socket not to use anything but C. I can't wait for him to retire so that Linux kernel devs could pick up more modern toolset
Yeah, Tesla does (though perhaps not with doors, yet). And if you look at the industrial tractor industry, you can see the future where it applies to even more and more vehicles.
In Germany we never went away from them.

But I have to admit, most teach rather outdated jobs no companies are hiring for anymore.

Also, the IT apprenticeships often aren't good quality. The schools use outdated material and if the companies can't compansate for that, the students are on their own.
>If you know their motives, would you please be kind enough to share them with us?

For me, it was the jobs.

Trump campaigned on bringing jobs back, on creating more jobs, and on reopening factories and mines.

I voted for him because he looks like he could deliver. And he did (record low unemployment rate).