skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 2019 Pro completely fixed the thermal issues, it is actually considered to have pretty impressive thermals now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxocVricANg
Show HN: TestLink- a free testing appointment scheduler for healthcare providers
Thank God for the Nerds
Ask HN: Mac (book/mini) owners, doesn't soldered storage bother you?
Hello,

This is a genuine question, since my wife is looking to replace her old MBP and she wants to stick with MacOS.

Basically, the inability to replace the storage bothers me for 2 reasons:
1. if I have to send it for repairs I send my data too - is encryption (strong) enough?
2. I never trusted or bought a used hard drive, so buying a used MBP would mean that. Is it that reliable?

Thank you in advance.
> isn't a desktop more suitable
I hope I didn't get permanent damage but I hurt myself badly with it. I was trying to put the volume up a bit while wearing earplugs (it was very low) so I pressed the "up" volume key. I accidentally pressed few pixels to the left from where I should have pressed and it went to FULL VOLUME without a warning, blasting audio and hurting myself badly.

This could not have happened without the touchbar. This is horrible UX and I will never trust that (work) computer again.
It’s from a mailing list, not Usenet.
https://www.interxion.com/sites/default/files/2020-01/paris-...

I'm guessing it's likely that this solution was adopted to quickly expand to a lot of countries due to data location and privacy questions being raised.
The question isn't how to approximate a given number to desired accuracy. It is whether we should be able to approximate it to desired accuracy relative to the denominator.

Getting an approximation p/q of x within 1/q is easy. Getting it within 1/q^2 takes work. Within 1/(10 q^2) is only sometimes possible.
Extended floating point precision with MPFR C and Rmpfr R
Now its probably in control of machines. And they don't know if its corona (which might pass as it did in china), they are probably thinking something like 2008 has happened.
Amazon sellers brace for layoffs, worse after coronavirus products get priority
I think a pan european one would be nice? Is there one?
The email is space-stuffed meaning it was probably written with format=flowed[1] (you can tell because there are spaces appended to hard-wrapped lines). That RFC was invented precisely for the purpose you mention: hard wrap lines in "dump" plain text clients, but allow "intelligent" clients to soft-wrap according to their own display width.

This email would display at full-width in a client that respects format=flowed (many modern email readers, except for, notably, Outlook and Gmail). But as others have pointed out, this is literally just the plain text of the email wrapped in a <pre> tag, so you get the hard line breaks.

[1]: https://joeclark.org/ffaq.html
Anyone know if these are ice lake chips or more generally does anyone know which uarch is in use?
YMMV, but for my tower, after getting over the initial hump of getting macOS installed, it’s less trouble than Linux is.

No matter the distro, under Linux it feels like I’m always fighting weirdness with X11/Wayland/GPU drivers and there’s more rough edges than I can count. It’s death by a thousand cuts. It has massive potential to be great, but it’s just not.

By contrast once your hackintosh is working properly, that’s pretty much it… the fight is over and you can just use your machine. If you set it up right, minor updates are uneventful and the only real maintenance that’s required comes with major OS releases every year or so, but that can be delayed for a long time if you’re not the type to keep pace with OS updates.

That said it is a bit of a technical endeavor, so be prepared for that.
Hiring software engineers and other IT professionals from abroad
Intel GPUs generate artefacts in FCPX and Motion 5 under heavier load.
It did happen in the UK. Banks that took bailouts traded shares for cash with the Treasury (this is a layman's understanding at least). RBS notably became 84% publicly owned.

The real scandal is the government selling back the shares for less than they paid for them (when RBS was on the brink of collapse).
I think the solution would be sending as little data as possible to answer the query, and choosing which/how many queries to respond to. Any large scale requests for data would have to be designed in a way that minimizes intrusiveness or risks being largely ignored. I don't think there's a great way to counter spoofing or sending garbage results without sacrificing user control, but the onus to de-noise should be on whatever institution is attempting to collate data. Additionally, if it's an opt-in system focused on public good there would generally not be much incentive to mess with it as long as users are somehow verified as being in the community (cert generated/granted once after initial identity check, etc). Sadly this is all very pie in the sky at the moment, the amount of cultural change + added infrastructure required for any system like this at the scale of a country would be insane
Our leaders, both business and government, find themselves entrapped in thinking about economics in terms of money. Soon we will be thinking about it in terms of productivity: how do we make sure enough food is made and distributed? How do we make sure we have enough medical supplies? We got away without thinking about productive capacity, instead focusing on money.

We will lose more people to this disease than any war since WW2, based on the statistics presented by people I trust. If we don't learn about wartime economics and fast, then the number will be higher than it needs to be.

Unfortunately, like I said, the people in charge are trapped in a box, believing that the systems that awarded them with great wealth must be the best possible system. The side-effect of this will be more death than necessary.
Not really - you can have single port Intel X520-based pcie-e card for $40. Or bundled with 3m DAC cable for $60.

For $100, you are in dual port cards territory.
That looks like an interesting website, is it completely separate or is it a kind of comment aggregator?
Look up washlets by Toto. You can get a replacement bidet toilet seat for your existing toilet but it requires a power socket to operate.
Spray/Jet is best. Required some plumbing and fitting jet between toilet sheet. All you need to do is turn on the knob.

No recurring cost of toilet paper.
Free Phone Hacking
I'm going through a horrible divorce spent all my money on attorney fees. My ex is making false allegations, I need to prove my innocents. How do I hack her phone for free if I don't have access to the device??
A lot of Apple's decisions bother me but if I don't have a choice then I don't have a choice.

SSDs are very reliable so I wouldn't worry about used Macs.
Yes, I saw that too, it's using an AQC107 (because it's supporting 2.5 and 5) and the card is 100 bucks https://camelcamelcamel.com/Gigabit-Ethernet-Express-Network... pretty steadily and so Apple only asking for the same price is indeed surprising.
This may be somewhat cynical, but housing policy in the US continues to be one of the main tools in systemic oppression of minorities. There are powerful segments of the population who are fine with the status quo and will not be happy if "they" move in next door. So they will do everything they can to "keep property values high" in suburban neighborhoods -- which has historically been a dog whistle for "keep minorities out" -- and in direct opposition to creating more affordable housing.
That why I don’t understand the outrage; it’s human nature to like non-ugly things.
Coronavirus looks different in kids than in adults
What to Expect When You're Expecting to Go Remote
Could a Jewish author have been first to record destruction of ancient Pompeii?
>The pp is saying they're lying because they didn't admit fault.

They pretty clearly admitted fault when they offered free out of warranty repairs for keyboard issues.
> isn't a desktop more suitable

No it isn't any more suitable, because you can put your laptop on a stand and plug it in to achieve the same thing.
not sure if the 2015 was any different from 2014, but it's still my favorite.
Don't confuse VB with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications, e.g. Excel's scripting language). VB was super-useful for building things like graphical frontends for databases, back when such things were typically delivered as desktop applications rather than web applications.
Economic turmoil leading to war isn't out of the realm of possibility, but do you have any sources pointing to signals of this impending war?
How does one use a sprayer attachment? It seems like positioning would be awkward.
I am running more than a website (I am also running a SMTP server, NNTP server, Gopher server, and may add a IRC server and telnet server too later); how does this affect me?
For reference the typical advice for risky allocations is at least 10 years, but longer is better.
No, because they're saying it's a refined scissor mechanism, i.e., a refined version of the old, pre-butterfly keyboard. This is 100% true.
As long as you've got the stomach to keep stuff there in the face of high volatility.

One approach that gives up some of the return but escapes the most volatile time:

https://mebfaber.com/timing-model/
Toilet paper also fuels logging of old-growth boreal forests https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jennifer-skene/issue-tissue-how...
That i5 is a 65W desktop part, not a mobile part. It is faster than the i7 9750H of the 16 inch macbook pro.

I'm highly doubtful most people here have workloads that it wouldn't be able to handle.
We're not saying they're equally falsifiable though. We have p values and sigmas and statistics to deal with different levels of wrongness and likeliness of being wrong. Nobody's saying that DNA and a bacteria causing influenza are equally likely to be wrong or equally wrong or something. The problem is saying that dna's existence is not falsifiable. That is an incorrect statement. That's all that's being pointed out.
Access to high-paying jobs within walking distance. Increased cultural events (concert tours stop in your city, your city makes new concerts...). Better public transit. "cocktail party/high school" sounds like an odd descriptor, especially since those two situations are defined by social interactions, the one thing city living has significantly less of.
I'm not sure why this was posted on HN today, but the Mac mini hasn't been updated, it just has slightly different storage configurations. This is the exact same computer the debuted in late 2018.
Could you elaborate? :) Because otherwise, you're possibly sending the same message as what I alluded to (i.e., we feel great because we're expecting a big exit).
Saudi and Russia both, really. The first escalated and the latter walked away, which is what caused the crash last week.

But really, it doesn't matter. What was happening at Saudi pumps last week was a speculative event, the size of the petroleum market for the next few months has absolutely nothing to do with OPEC decisions, it's about quarantine restrictions on travel all over the world.

Saudi might continue pumping, but as others are pointing out when the tankers and storage facilities fill up, they'll stop. Because there's nothing else to do.
>Keeping a hackintosh updated (for even stuff like graphics card drivers) turns out to be a lot of time doing research, scrolling through endless forum posts, and bricking your install quarterly because you "did the wrong thing" (like absent-mindedly accepting a security update notification).

That was my experience with a hackintosh. It works great, but your always worried about it not working. The "T2" security chip is a good point. Will likely make Hackintoshes a thing of the pas.

There are some good machines you can buy with Linux installed. I have a system76, it updates all the time without issue. I feel the extra cost over an "install it yourself" is worth it, especially for a laptop. Dell even sells machines with ubuntu.
We actually have servers in North America, Europe (including Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific. The complete list is here: https://fly.io/docs/regions/#discovering-your-applications-r...

Building an anycast network is expensive. That's part of what we want to make accessible to devs. There are a couple of companies (like Packet, and possibly Vultr) you can lease servers from that will handle anycast. These tend to get you into the same ~16 regions, expanding past those can be difficult and even more expensive. That's what we're working on now.
Used to occasionally import VB libraries into C# for that sort of thing. :-)
Circuit breaker hit midday down 7% on S&P 500 Wed March 18th 2020
I'm just confused at today's drop in long-term government bonds (and thus increase in interest rates) -- normally they go in the opposite direction of the stock market, which is what it's done this year. Vanguard's long-term govt bond ETF (VGLT) is up 13% so far this year:

https://www.ytdreturn.com/vglt/

Edit: rephrase to clarify what I'm confused about
The top concern for a war in the ME is that an unstable authoritarian state (eg Iran) starts a war to distract the population from the woes of COVID.

Current feeling is that they are suffering sufficiently from COVID and internal political chaos that they won't be able to organize to do that.
I run Unstable, not Stable, but yes it exists.
Dear Mr Eng (or louiscyphre or smalltalkcoder), please stop using alternative accounts to pretend that others like your articles.
RAM yes, SSD no
They call this "trying to catch a falling knife". Good luck.
What made you think that this forum has answers?
Corps invested in shale with whom Russia and Saudi Arabia are playing hardball currently. Of course there's no need to start some big war to rebalance the market. If gas is under a dollar baby boomers will all convert to hummerzines and you will be considered a nancy boy if you "only" drive a wimpy little sport utility vehicle that takes up 1.5 parking spaces.
Start a war? The Saudis are already in a war.
Ask HN: How does your organization track feature utilization in its apps?
My organization spends millions annually on in-house software development (there is no off-the-shelf alternative and it makes sense to do so). However, we do not currently track metrics pertaining to which features/screens/etc. are actually utilized, versus those that are not. Needless to say, this makes it difficult to determine how effective requirements gathering was in the first place, let alone how much effort to expend on maintaining/upgrading various screens.

Does your org track utilization of screens/features? If so do you use custom logic, a paid tool (Flexera Usage Intelligence, etc.) or open source tooling (would love to hear more on this)?
If you assume the US is a few weeks behind Europe, there's more and more bad news to come. It's always hard to know how much is priced in, or even how to price in something so alien to financial people.

Also keep in mind there's a number of mechanisms that pushed the market up that will now push it the other way:

Credit cycle makes collateral worth more, giving more capacity to extend credit.

Momentum funds buy when things have gone up.

Risk parity funds add when risk is low. And risk as measured by realised volatility gets lower as we creep up.

Retail sees the market is going up, much like momentum funds.

Selling options makes sense when there's barely ever a move in the market.

Now try these in reverse.
Without HBM or more memory channels, the top SKUs will be rather hard to feed considering the (claimed) at least ~3-5x increase in instructions/s/socket while only increasing memory bandwidth by ~20%.
This is not a one-in-a-million event, this is not something that no one could've predicted, many people predicted it and we blithely ignored them. This is the direct consequence of our consistent policies and behavior. This is like standing 99 feet from a cliff and saying "well the next 100 feet in front of me is 99% solid ground and 1% air, sounds safe to me!" and then walking right off of the cliff.
Point being is it is much of the danger can be attributed to being in poorer health to start with. JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER PATHOGEN.
The point is that at the end of the day people will always prefer looking at beautiful people over ugly people, so TikToks practices aren’t really all that absurd.
Dreamer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning Using World Models
Playstation 5 Specs Revealed: GPU, CPU, RAM, SSD and More
Like 2008 all over again. Except you could also die.
Do those things cost trillions of dollars? I don't think so. Each country could probably commit a couple hundred million to this and be better off than a complete shutdown.
Some Top Asset Managers Argue Financial Markets Should Close
Having worked on Wall Street, it essentially boils down to public/private businesses and financial institutions/firms/banks/exchanges are considered "Wall Street"...

Everyone one else is considered "Main Street"...

They have their own language and culture that exhorts greed and profit above humanity and peace. ie. "Wolf of WallStreet"...
There is typically an option to bypass the paywall posted with the articles, that's why HN allows them.

In this case: http://archive.is/y9Mxy
Electricity can go negative because some modes of production are slow and difficult to turn off, so they keep producing and we need somewhere to dump the energy.

It doesn't help that unlike oil electricity is produced in a just in time fashion, we produce it the same second we want to use it, not days or months before hand. I.e. there is nearly no buffer capacity in the supply chain.

Does the same apply to oil? Can we not just turn the pumps off and leave it in the ground with what basically amounts to flipping a switch?
Remember, you're not actually bailing out the airlines, you're bailing out the banks that loaned them money. The banks always, always win.
> By “simpler” I’m sure they mean “lower memory footprint” and “more stable” - right?

Maybe, but most of the changes that triggered this blog post are UI/UX related as you can see in these GIFs [1][2][3][4].

[1] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma...

[2] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma...

[3] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma...

[4] https://slackhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-04_Risma...
I remember being in a capsule-hotel/hostel in Japan thinking about how great the Japanese are that these seats are the default in a hostel.

I have been through Africa and parts of Asia were the "bum gun" is the only resource for cleaning, no paper. Japan had the best of both worlds.

I have always said I would purchase one if I ever purchased my own place. In my current rental, I would need to have a power cord come completely across the sink (no low outlets).
This is what I have too and it works reasonably well. I was joking to a relative that she could purchase a home depot hand pumped garden sprayer with a wand as a substitute during the corona virus crisis.
The newer models have fixed this, putting the webcam up top where it belongs!
> Because of the monopoly created by the insurmountable task of building a competitive alternative

And if you go for a competitive alternative based on a more sane stack than HTML/CSS/JS/..., then you cannot compete with the content. Unless your new tech stack is really really really really better for current usage.

It probably means designing it for mobile first: small footprint, low energy consumption and a lot of resilience wrt to network hiccups. Plus an integrated monetization scheme that doesn't waste half of the bandwidth for ads or half the battery capacity to try to circumvent ad blockers - all that without selling the color of the user's pants to anyone wanting to buy it.

I know, utopia, utopia.
Can we link to the ACM award site and its article instead of the NYT paywall?

https://amturing.acm.org/
This isn't an option, it's piracy.
It's the Systems, Stupid
I setup a 301 redirect, directly to the Johns Hopkins dashboard using a common nickname for coronavirus:

https://TheRoni.com
> Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%).

Nonsense! Unless we can count every death caused by the virus, and correctly diagnose every infection, then this is a ridiculous (and irresponsible) guess. The number for "all cases" comes from the CCDC paper:

> A total of 72,314 patient records—44,672 (61.8%) confirmed cases, 16,186 (22.4%) suspected cases, 10,567 (14.6%) clinically diagnosed cases (Hubei Province only), and 889 asymptomatic cases (1.2%)—contributed data for the analysis.

Another more recent study guesses that 86% of cases are asymptomatic and/or otherwise undocumented:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/scie...
A completely collapsed economy could trigger a society breakdown and will have deadly consequences as well, like violence (fighting over food, possesions) and bad healthcare
It didn't "pass" in China or Korea (FWIW: the Korean numbers seem much better attested -- lots of smart people continue to worry that China has been censoring news of further outbreaks). It's just controlled.

The quarantine measures required to control it continue to be required to control it. So while the virus itself might not be spreading, its economic effects persist until we reach herd immunity or distribute a vaccine. Both are year+ long time scales.

The market is, frankly, being much more rational than people expect. This isn't going to get better soon.
Supposedly, some of the large hedge funds are being liquidated...

https://twitter.com/MarkYusko/status/1238672312699887622
> It's not platform agnostic

ROS2 supports Windows, OS X, and Linux. I expect the support will only get better as ROS2 matures.

> just applications communicating via standardized means

I can't imagine any way to make such a system work without some kind of middleware for applications which gladly is DDS now for ROS2.
Isn't this what some governments (through purchasing supply) and some central banks (through relaxed lending restrictions) have done with real estate?
Yeah, the floor drains in Asia make water leaks a minor issue.

It would be a major issue in the US as that water would just leak through the floor.
we have a general problem with information which is fake news are always free, real news are usually behind paywalls.

You can use the Bypass Paywalls extension for FF. Pretty sure there is something similar for Chrome? https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
The market hasn't yet priced in an important reality: we have no way to stop the spread at the moment.

Best that can be done are quarantines, but they're crushing the economy. Many outlets are reporting that a vaccine is at least a year out. So all we can do is slow this down and stagger cases. The Harvard epidemiologist who projected 40-70% of the world's adult population ultimately contracting covid was probably right.

At some point, governments will likely realize that they need to send younger segments of the population back to work (a la the UK), respecting the medical system's capacity, or risk triggering a depression. The economy was already systemically vulnerable for a number of reasons and this situation threatens to push it over the edge.

It's possible the market has not yet fully priced in extended quarantines or the likelihood of much of China and most other important economies experiencing a significant disease burden. The paradox is that the quarantines have slowed down the progression but are not an economically sustainable tool to fight this, so the numbers being reported are artificially deflated. On the other side, you have the medical system's limited capacity. One way or the other, we'll have to face the music on this.
> I am a PURE VB.NET developer. I have never used any other language full-time for any significant portion of my education or career—a client project here or there but nothing that somehow made me NOT a VB developer. How am I supposed to engage?"

Every developer should be polyglot. Adapt or die.