skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently took a late 2011 Macbook Pro and installed Ubuntu 19.04 on it.

* It was easy. I don't know what to add except it was easy.

* It is fast. I now consider Mojave bloatware, although I didn't know it at the time. It appears that there are now so many things running in Mojave that my old macbook could not handle it. With Ubuntu 19.04 it is FAST. And what can you say? Except imagine what 19.10 would be like on a faster CPU. Not that I need it, but ...

* Its fun. Probably this is a function of how fast it is, but also most things just work very nicely. I'm fond of 19.10 in a way that I have not been fond of my macbook since maybe Sierra.

* I miss Apple-C and Apple-V for cut and paste and I miss iterm2, but that is all.

* The only thing I need a mac for is ios development and for that I plan to get a mac mini, but otherwise the run from an Apple II, through a Mac SE and an iMac has ended for me.

* Oh, and you can run wine and windows stuff really easily on 19.10.
Yeah so, what the data has been pointing to the whole time.
Because Electron does not run on mobile and it doesn't interface with the native UI.

No benchmark is needed. Running your app in an entire browser (one of the most complex pieces of software w/ millions of lines of code) is of course going to be less performant and eat more resources.

I'm not dissing Electron, it's great if you have a web app that you want to make standalone on the desktop. That alone does not make cross-platform though.

Ult can target the DOM so you can build a web app then wrap it with Electron. This is currently the best way to target Linux. Ideally there will be a GTK bridge like the bridges for the other major desktop and mobile OSes.
If they didn't cost $500 I bet they would have more on hand...
You’d have to be sitting on a cash savings equal to the value of the retirement account? Because you couldn’t use the proceeds from the retirement sale?
HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation
Chrome OS’s desktop software situation is very poor compared to macOS’s.
We use Kind. I think one of the best thing about Kind is that

- You can run it on Github actions. So, you can test in your CI pipeline.

- You can run any recent version of Kubernetes.

- Kind can start a Kubernetes cluster under a minute on a developer machine.
Thanks! (And crikey, that is quite a post!)
I said that with a very specific meaning and you're taking it out of context.
Actually, we've implemented the New Great Depression. Remains to be seen how governments process and respond to it.
What I wonder is, does this mean deaths are also under reported because they're being attributed to the flu or pneumonia without adequate testing?
>Goldman Sachs already said they expect a further drop of 20%. Of course, this is just the beginning.

In November, Goldman Sachs was calling for 3.5% Global GDP growth. They are guessing, like the rest of us.
> prior to 23 January 2020 travel restrictions

So, no.
No one is dying from global warming. It's still much cooler than it was in the early Holocene (the Neolithic, or stone age era of humanity) and this was a time of abundance and expansion for farming and agriculture. Even the Sahara was richly farmed at the time. Plants not only thrive under warm temperatures, they also thrive with high levels of CO2. The world is greening:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
I love this, I was deciding between restic, duplicati, bup, duplicacy, borg, duplicity, but I was not satisfied, this app seems to bring all the beautiful options of those apps into one app.

here are my cons about those apps:

restic : no gui, but I love it

duplicati : only web ui and difficult to navigate snapshots, but I love it

bup : no gui, python, but I love it

duplicacy: paid gui

borg: could not build it in windows

Thank you for sharing this excellent app
> Plus, the technology behind it is already in WhatsApp.

Some of the tech is in WhatsApp, but it's misleading to imply that this means WhatsApp is a good replacement for Signal if you care about privacy.

One of WhatsApp's two co-founders left WhatsApp when he saw what Facebook was doing and has since been pumping a lot of money into Signal.
The claims of improved performance are meant relative to web/Electron or WPF apps I think. There's a lot more that affects app performance than the UI framework it uses though ...
I disagree that anything hints at unification. They have literally said outright that they want one OS for each platform, hence why iPadOS was born proper.

The aim is to reach feature parity across their three systems though, so you have a point.
The implication would be that, in the places where it's severe, transmission is actually completely uncontrolled and statistics fail to show it because of testing problems. I think Iran is the place to watch - there are other reasons to believe (such as the number of politicians infected) that the virus is there in large numbers everywhere.
Bullfrog's classic game "Theme Hospital" had really great emergent vomit cascades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y69QTjTvp1w
Behringer's audio interfaces are very, very good for their money. The UMC204HD (2 in w/ inserts and 4 outs) at less than 90 € delivered is quite a good deal. Both inputs are universal (mic/line/inst), with pad. Phantom power is switched in common for both. It also has MIDI in/out, but I never used that, can't comment.

Note that a separate pre-amp or DI box is not necessary with these. You can connect microphones of either kind directly as well as pickups.

> does it really gave to be a mac!!

No.
EU countries are finding it easy enough politically to soft-close their borders, and that's normally a much tighter union than NAFTA. It would be surprising if Canada didn't have the right to do this in emergency circumstances.
no audio like in Discord.
Which data?
Covid-19 testing effort at UC Berkeley needs engineering help
Look, I complain about wealth inequality more than anyone I know.

Stock buybacks had A LOT of problems people don't discuss.

But this isn't really what ruined the airlines.

UAL -- the hardest hit and worst buyback offender -- bought back $1.2Bn in 2015, $2Bn in 2016, $3Bn in 2017, $1.2Bn in 2018, and $3Bn in 2019.

That's a total of $10.4Bn. To my knowledge, less than 4% of that was on borrowed money.

They returned roughly ~95% of free cashflow to investors mostly through buybacks instead of dividends.

UAL's Cash on Hand increased 25% in 2019 to $4.9Bn.

Even if they had that $10.4Bn, they could not get through Coronavirus. Airlines have HIGHLY volatile margins on INSANE amounts of revenue. None of them could withstand a 70% decrease in air traffic for a year.

Maybe they're all terribly run. I dunno. They were pretty bad buyback offenders, but far from the worst. And buybacks are not what ruined them.

Most companies keep less than 10% of Op Ex in cash on hand. UAL's Op Ex is about $38Bn/year. A lot of people think it's healthy for a business to have 25-50% of Op Ex in cash. For UAL, that would've been $9.5-$19Bn.

They could've been in that range if they didn't issue any dividends or buybacks since 2014. But they still wouldn't be able to make it through this.

And, no, I'm not saying that they should've done buybacks at the rate they did (or at all). I'm just saying this isn't what ruined them, and they are far from the worst offenders here. They're just the hardest hit.

Edit:

Curious if anyone familiar with the industry can comment:

How much of Airlines' Op Ex is fixed? How much can they realistically cut? I don't know enough about how this "mandatory" flight schedule works. How many flights do they need to keep flying to keep their gates?
crates.io is not a commercial enterprise.
> - Use a condenser microphone with a pop filter for vocals

As an old engineer and record label owner I actually say NEVER use a condenser microphone unless you have great acoustics in your room and specific reason for using them. Use a dynamic mic instead. They are great sounding used on millions of songs and they are forgiving for bad acoustic areas. People just assume that condenser are better for all vocals. My 1" condensers that cost thousands sound amazing but a lot of times I just use a SM58 instead because it was a better sound for it. SM7B is my go to mic for vocals but that would be out of most people's budgets. Also no need for phantom power is also a plus.

SM7B from Shure $399
Sennheiser e945 $219
SM58 from Shure $99 (This is a tank of a mic that just rocks)
Students on Spring Break Fail to Heed Coronavirus Warnings
But you can create electric fields over large areas if you wish to do so, and it's probably easier and cheaper than creating large magnetic fields. I suspect there are other downsides though.
Gunnison, CO dodged the Spanish Flu in 1918
Its easy to generate links to join a server and offers a large degree of control for the administrator. If you want to establish a community forum quickly with the flexibility to change its structure as the community grows its pretty nice.

It has the same draw that the php bbs pages had in the 90's and 00's.
I'm finding skinny scroll bars increasingly hard to target, even with my mouse.
They’ll be the first, but almost all of them will be fine. They’ll just pass it onto the elderly, cancer patients, etc who won’t be fine. No Darwinian justice here, I’m afraid.
Nobody can tell you what will happen for sure, but it might be a good idea to look for businesses with large market caps and capital stores to deploy that will make it much more likely they will survive this period.
1 and 2 are important. 3 is not important. Shareholders should lose everything in a bailout, that's the deal when one decides to buy equity in a company.
You don't get to bundle criticism of a basic income tax reduction with these other economic policies, just because there's a crisis.
>you're taking it out of context

You claimed the the GFC and dotcom bust "revealed fundamental problems in the marketplace", but "In this case...the primary mechanism is "people can't work/aren't going out and buying things". That's..going to "go back to the way things were"

To which I explained to you there are fundamental issues with this as well, mainly the world's second largest economy is messed up, royally. What context did I miss?
It's not an issue of supporting or not supporting the corporate entity - and they must follow US law.

Indeed, it's a fiduciary obligation to the shareholders given they are a listed company.
How did it spread long ago without killing a lot of elderly people back then, raising suspicion?

Perhaps elderly people often trickle in to ICUs with respiratory issues and as long as it’s flu season no one really notices some more dying 80+ people especially as there was no test for this virus?
a globalized MOOC on over-capacitated system DDoS
smh California has had a rigid cap on property taxes since like the late 70s. That decision is largely why the rest of California's taxes are so high.
Mails are usually instant.

Yes, open source.
> It is unlikely that this virus will kill more people than die in car crashes in a single year. Let's keep some perspective.

I wouldn't be so sure. Italy may hit that amount this week. Italy has 3,333 deaths from car accidents per year. They currently have 2,158 deaths from covid-19, adding 368 just today.
That’s the first time I’ve heard anyone complement UWP. I thought it doesn’t support anything useful like datagridview?
Not really. Homebrew would just need to start installing a copy of Ruby in its install script (which is written in bash).
What If Andrew Yang Was Right?
Here in Australia, a few responsible providers like Aussie Broadband have already announced unmetered data usage and temporarily stopping all service suspensions.

https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/blog/aussie-broadband-ann...

Edit: The real test though will be the bandwidth of our gov-sponsored, substandard, widely FTTN (instead of full FTTP).
> Perhaps elderly people often trickle in to ICUs with respiratory issues and as long as it’s flu season no one really notices some more dying 80+ people especially as there was no test for this virus?

I imagine most countries keep track of flu deaths and would have noticed an uptick.
Two global travelers with frequent contact to other global travelers doesn't prove much.
At some point even Amazon workers will have to stop working to contain the virus. How Amazon if going to provide safety to workers when even doctors with all protection still gets the virus?
First White Child
> Although they seem to be more interested in keeping the bare minimum around versus making it easier for development, since there isn't a brew-esque thing built in

I don't know anybody in the macOS development team, so I don't know their work practices, but it totally wouldn't surprise me if they've all installed Homebrew and use it heavily.

I infer Apple's attitude as being "if you are technical enough to use Homebrew, you are technical enough to download and install it yourself". (Or MacPorts, or Fink.)

If they bundle it... then people might start turning up at the Genius bar to complain "brew install X gives me an error!"

> my only major showstopper being that valgrind just straight up isn't a thing for recent versions of OS X, with the brew version not compiling on 10.15 or 10.14

I feel the same pain... I just use Docker for Mac to run valgrind for Linux. For my personal use cases, that works fine (since I don't write much macOS-specific code)
Presumably the shell script that you paste into your terminal to install Homebrew will install Ruby as well…
> If you specify who's acknowledging it then the joke doesn't work.

Not quite, the original is very explicit about who acknowledges the truth in question.

What do you think is the difference between "it is a truth universally acknowledged" and "it is a truth acknowledged by all"?
you’re thinking of just covid-19 cases. but they compete with all other cases for medical care.

if you come in messed up from a car accident and you need 5 doctors to survive, or those 5 doctors can keep 5 covid patients alive each, you’re going to be left to bleed out. regardless of how young you are.

(i’m not claiming those relative numbers are realistic.)
pfSense is FreeBSD. Not terribly popular, but I still come across it every so often.
> Maybe, but why don't you think the markets will bounce back once we're on the other side of this?

Of course. Do you think people will stop working, going out, watching movies, buying cars, etc forever?

Every market decline, people think the world is going to end. But the world just keeps chugging along.

During the 2008 financial crisis, people were predicting the end of the world, bank runs, financial collapse, etc. The most recent ebola scare, people were talking about pandemic, every hospital being at capacity, death rate, triage and the end of the world.

In a few years, we'll do this all over again. The markets will be reinflated, the markets will decline, we'll have another crisis, the news will feed panic for ad money and people will go out of their minds. Then things will return to normal.
Doctors are using it. From a story published last week:

> While awaiting these results, doctors in the US, China and Italy are already using remdesivir on a compassionate basis to treat small numbers of patients with severe Covid-19.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/10/hopes-rise-ove...
Google cache for Contra Costa County order shows it is nearly identical to Alameda County order:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ilhKHP...

When the panic hugs end, the Contra Costa order will be available in one of these two locations:

https://www.contracostahealth.org/coronavirus/pdf/HO-COVID19...

https://cchealth.org/coronavirus/pdf/HO-COVID19-SIP-0316-202...
> there is no passive voice in the sentence you quoted

There is no finite passive verb, but "acknowledged" is a passive form in the sentence in question. It's just a participle rather than a finite verb.
People who get the virus and recover will be able to go back to work without risk of being infected.
> because they basically require a phone number to use their service.

I have two accounts, none needed my phone number. Just e-mail. Is this new?
They were spotted (from orbit) digging mass graves, so. Not optimistic.
it seems obv that mask wearing would have slowed the spread immensely

they also have large distribution of sanitizer so you can shrink the contact vector too..

I wish europe went this way
Appreciate the feedback :-)

I think the "best" depends on what you're doing to be honest, (e.g. if you only develop on ubuntu, check out microk8s too! they have some good ideas, eg focusing on straight-forward support for a local registry instead of side-loading) and there's a _lot_ of room to improve kind, but the vote of confidence is still very nice to see :-)
That kind of interface will be "interesting" to use while blind.
Yes, there are of course drawbacks. But the direct detection is applicable at the same stage of infection as a rt-pcr and therefore usefull for immediate disease diagnosis. Indirect tests after seroconversion are the easier alternative, and will probably be used extensively in the aftermath, to get solid epidemiological numbers.
Hrm. Let's step back for a moment. Your responses read to me as defensive and it is not my intent at all to attack your position.

If you do not want to deal with APL/J/K, that's perfectly fine. Your interests and goals are very likely different than mine. All I wish to communicate is my experience, "Hey, this language seems really weird and counterintitive and completely non-sensical on the suraface, but I spent some time actually learning it and it turns out that these first impressions were wrong!"

You know how modern mathematical notation is really compact compared to the "more readable" prose that used to be used in the past? The funny part is that the prose is a lot harder to parse than the modern notation, provided you already know the latter. APL/J/K is a lot like executable math notation in that way.

What about you? Is there some core point you are trying to get across that I/we seem to be missing?

> I see; it's okay for you to use the English language with sentences involving cobble and coddle...

So my answer is that, yes, my analogy with English is relevant, because it attempts to communicate to you what it feels like to read unfamiliar J code in practice.

Your analogy with C is making a different point, that opaque identifiers with similar spellings and similar contexts are confusable. I agree.
I remember that game so well. Your get so far and then Madagascar closes it's borders and it's game over for you.

Turns out it's true.
> If you are uncertain how to properly make sure you get a healthy lunch and dinner check “Fitness YouTube”.

Why would you not know that if you're working at home, if you knew it while working at work?

Or, if you didn't know when working at work, why would you start caring when switching to working from home?
MacOS team is making a huge mistake there, can't believe the best Unix environment right now is Linux subsystem in win10, times have changed
Have you ever seen them work, or seen data on them? I've never had them work, and they don't seem like they would either - bunch of seeds landing in a ball together would lead to too much competition, right? That is, if they didn't sprout while the ball initially dried.
Great news. Kudos, Amazon.
Demand Covid Relief for Platform Workers
> What bothers me the most though is that Apple has removed the man pages from their online documentation. [..] So far, the best we can get is doing a search on the open source repository… until that goes away.

...Or you can just use the `man` command, which still works fine.
It is prudent for an individual to have a rainy day fund for emergencies.

It is also prudent for a corporation to have a rainy day fund for unpredictable events like an upcoming pandemic.

An individual who didn't properly save can go bankrupt in a time of emergency. Likewise, a company which didn't properly save should also go bankrupt in a time of emergency. Look at Apple or Berkshire Hathaway. Both have a massive safety net in the form of liquid cash for hard times.
Letting them all fail would do more harm to others than warranted.

"Too big to fail?" We fell for that once before.
One of the first downloadable objects for The Sims 1 was a pet guinea pig, which literally had a downloadable computer virus.

If you neglected to feed and care for your guinea pig properly, it would bite you and give you a deadly contagious virus, which you could spread to other Sims by not following proper hygiene and getting enough rest, and even die from.

Kids who downloaded the binary Sims object from the internet and installed in their game were horrified that their beloved Sims dropped dead unexpectedly, but they learned a useful lesson.

Now deadly infectious guinea pigs are a tradition continued in later versions of The Sims!

The Sims Pie Menus

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-sims-pie-menus-49ca02a74d...

>Viruses

>You can download this guinea pig object, and if you don’t care for it it will make this secret hidden virus object that gives you a cold, and has with it the animations and sounds of coughing and going (cough cough).

>Every once in a while it will just interrupt what you do and cough, and it will be bad for your health. And if you don’t get enough sleep, you have to get sleep to get rid of it.
This little program is literally a virus that runs and lives in your household and in your characters, and your characters can spread them to the neighbors, and they’ll bring them home to their families.

>Programmable Plug-In Objects

>Anyway, there’s quite a lot of interesting potential for what new plug-ins additions can do because of this programming languages.

>SimAntics Visual Programming Language

>There’s a built-in visual programming language called SimAntics, that is a control flow decision tree type of language. So the “Come and See” object, we’ll look at that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs&t=12m23s

Something Is Killing the Sims, and It's No Accident. By John Markoff, April 27, 2000.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/27/technology/something-is-k...

Lethal guinea pig kills virtual people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/746700.stm

The Sims 1: Guinea Pig Disease

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O5cgXuqhnA

The Sims / Illness / Guinea Pig Disease

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Illness

How to Get and Treat Guinea Pig Disease

https://sims-online.com/how-to-get-treat-guinea-pig-disease/

The Sims 4 My First Pet: SimGuruGraham Talks “Guinea Pig” Disease

https://simsvip.com/2018/03/07/the-sims-4-my-first-pet-simgu...
Because that's not the federal government's problem. They are mostly interested in: international relations, facilitating business and the economy (trade deals etc), making sure shipping flows freely, defence, etc (you can find a list of all provincial vs federal competencies online). The healthcare systems are run by the provinces, even if the federal government took the liberty to redistribute tax monies to provinces for their own healthcare, subject to federal govt conditions, as well as assure service to some populations (first nations, veterans, etc).

Trudeau has even stated that he thinks each province should be acting on that since they're competent wrt healthcare. Borders are under his control, yet weren't seen as a particularly pressing issue as I highly doubt (as we have, I believe, clearly seen) that this was even on his daily agenda before a few days ago. He went from 0 to 100 in a day. Just yesterday he was serving the same old same old.

There were a bunch of statements made by some of his ministers on Twitter. Overall bad handling of what should have been a no-brainer. Premier Legault had to publically call Trudeau out multiple times on his inaction. That kind of thing shouldn't happen.