skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a concrete example from my own life. I've had a very minor and benign heart condition my whole life. Switching doctors after I moved across the country they're like: "We should do an echocardiogram to just check that it hasn't changed."

They do the ECG and find a really crazy high blood pressure in my heart so they think I have pulmonary hypertension. This kicks off:

- A sleep study

- Lung capacity study

- Restricted travel (they didn't want me to fly - which was a problem with my consulting work)

- A full-on cardiac catheter procedure - which is outpatient, but still a procedure where they put you under twilight sedation and insert large metal sheath into your groin (femoral artery)

Easily a dozen doctors visits, thousands of dollars in additional tests, and multiple weeks of time altogether. Also, non-trivial risks of infection and complication from the procedure.

On top of that, it's a mental thing. Every twinge of a muscle in my chest would cause a spike of concern, I'd sit around worrying about my heart inflating and bursting, etc.

All to (thankfully) find out that definitively 100% that the ECG was a false positive and I'm perfectly fine. One kicker to this though is that I was initially rejected for health insurance at a new job (pre ACA) as I'd had this procedure. It took patiently explaining over and over again to insurance people the above before they would accept me.
Exactly! It's a nice form-factor and hardware etc, but I couldn't and wouldn't want to live solely in iOS-land
Which d3 API?
16-bit is also a non-starter if you want to include historical or rare CJK characters, historical/ancient scripts, symbol sets, etc. So a 32-bit encoding does make a lot of sense.
It's an interesting concept, I think for an email disrupter though, you'd do better w/ maybe open core software. So people can build upon and really make it the next gen of email, not a closed wall.
I question whether it is possible to be "fit" in this analogy, or just lucky.

Also, let's not forget that "fitness" and "conformance to our values" are separate dimensions. It is not necessarily the case that we humans want to optimize companies for their ability to withstand once in ???? year events without government assistance. Companies optimized along such criteria would be more fit for an environment where government assistance doesn't exist, but crucially that is not necessarily the actual environment that companies exist in in the real world. And it is not obvious to me that the citizenry benefits from companies optimized that way.
Tracking Firmware Code Size
Slack introduces simplified interface as usage moves deeper into companies
> Management should be punished excessively as a warning to others, though I do not expect them to be punished at all.

"Management" is a group of ordinary people who are doing their jobs - trying to maximize profits for their employers. I'm not going to sit here and say my job is any different. I'm writing code so my employer will make money, not anyone else.

What specifically are you going to punish management for?
DDR4 easily runs at 3200 MHz (DDR) though I don't know if that's common yet for ECC RDIMMS.
I used the "partition" layout to make the sunburst diagram.
Do you not use italics or strikethrough, then? Or scrolling regions? (Full-screen TUI programs rely upon setting scrolling regions to significantly speed up pane scrolls, so don't start by saying that you never use them.)

You are not the first person to go overboard calling it the best terminal ever. It clearly is not, yet. The developers themselves acknowledge that there's a way to go, yet, and maintain to-do lists of the many things that it as yet lacks. It does make me wonder, when it has simple deficiencies compared to the likes of XTerm, how seriously the people who claim "best terminal ever" have actually exercised any of these programs.
Working Remotely When You Didn't Plan To
If you're getting a bidet, I recommend getting a heated one.
It was isolated first on Dec 27th or thereabouts. Later retroactive investigation determined that some cases in late November was infact the same virus.
http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2019/American-Airlines-...
What about Linux support?
The Road to Ps5
That was one specific interesting point in the article though - the other structures were built out of everything, bones from mammoths, foxes and other small game. This particular structure was entirely built out of mammoth bone and is insanely large.
About 90% of the general population have "other" illnesses.
The writing has been on the wall for a while. They already nuked one generation of iThing connectors (two, if you count the FireWire iPods) and we survived. We will quickly get over the death of Lightning. The only people who will be seriously upset will be people owning the original Apple Pencil.
Even before issuing loans, banks look at market conditions and ratings. In the present scenario, banks will stop giving loans to companies. When Fitch and S&P cut down ratings for many companies, banks become reluctant. Yesterday, the federal reserve agreed to take commercial paper with certain ratings.

What repos do: swap one kind of IOU (I owe you) with another kind of IOU. This doesn't make banks to issue new loans to distressed companies, any more than you/I can give loans to a dead beat. During good times, everyone is happy to issue loans.
I remember feeling the same when I was forced to upgrade from 32 mb of ram to 128 mb of ram to run the combination of browser, chat and IDE on windows NT4, back when they moved from hand-optimized assembly to mass-produced C++ for most software.

With every layer of abstraction added to ease development the hardware requirements go up. You can build things fast, or you can build fast things, doing both is tricky.
>product

>users

Hi maram! It's not that kind of project. I'm building a new OS and browser for myself. There is no "product" and the only "user" I care about is me. :)
Yes, I'm very conservative. I'm in tech because I want to compound my achievements over time, and I can't do that if I fear the ground shifting underneath my feet. Hence Bezo's mantra "focus on the things that don't change". I hate O(N) efforts, I prefer O(N log N) efforts or better.

Enterprise workloads are far more conservative than I am, those guys spend decades running the same servers. It's why they can focus on sales and customer success and rake in money, which is what actually puts food on the table for their kids.
But you’re using precisely the mindset that you should be using. You doubt that DNA or evolution will be falsified.

And, of course, Einstein’s theory absolutely did falsify Newton’s. I’m not aware of any epistemology or terminology within which you can claim that he didn’t.
OP's comment was about thermal dissipation, which, if anything, would be a more difficult problem with the power adapter (since the processor doesn't need to be throttled to conserve battery, for example). So, yes.
what about nitpicks related to whitespace? These are an endless source of time-wasting, IMHO.
But your C# application is debuggable, unlike those "impressive applications" written in JavaScript with thousands of async callbacks so you have no idea where the originating problematic call came from in your minified JavaScript, and even if you find it you still have to deal with the minified code that is unreadable.

What boilerplate are you talking about in C#? If you think that's bad, you should try something like C++ (although it's got far better in recent years), and I say this as a fan of C++.

C# is compiled, JavaScript is not. Your C# application will involve high CPU to compile ONCE but forevermore require half the resources of interpreted JavaScript in webpages, which need to be interpreted again and again and again.

This is an issue that is worth bearing in mind for energy usage, and has a significant impact on our future if we just defer to "easy to write, expensive to run" web languages.

I'd say C# is easier to write than JavaScript and is easier to debug for the most part.
My experience is that WebEx is far behind FaceTime and Skype in terms of reliability and ease of use. So the failures of videoconferencing in the corporate IT context are IMHO self inflicted.
LOL at the row of 10 of them, about 2/3 down the page. Those things would catch fire in about 5 seconds. You'd have to be blowing high pressure ice cold air at the intake side to even hope keeping them running at that density.
The Crazy Story of New York’s Crazy Eddie
We feel great about Fly.io :) (I am their group partner at YC)
I have tried very hard for the last few years to do Python development on the iPad Pro with a combination of Termius (to ssh into my home machine) and Pythonista. They are both great apps but it's not enough -- time and time again I ran into fussy little roadblocks that were taking too much time to resolve. I finally got flummoxed enough to buy a refurbished HP Elitebook 820 instead.

Mind you, I work on financial applications so YMMV. I love my Mac -- I wish the iPad was there, but it's not there yet. Great for watching Netflix though ...
Airlines profited around $28 billion in 2019 [1].

If they were publicly owned, the prices of flights would just go down until there was no profit. Also, the CEOs wouldn't be paid tens of millions of dollars per year [2], so again, prices would go down.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/02/airline-industry-cuts-profit...

[2] https://skift.com/2019/05/29/united-wont-pay-munoz-a-full-bo...
> if someone encouraged you to check on your neighbors and shop for them if needed, you wouldn't refuse to do that because other neighborhoods might need the help more, right?

It's more like someone asking me to help their neighbours rather than help my own neighbours. Why should I prefer to help your neighbours than mine?
In fairness, as a Rust dev my computer sounds like it's a jet engine anytime I compile. I wouldn't even think about using a slimmer CPU. Not that you're wrong, it's just where my head is at haha.
Deliveroo riders can’t access coronavirus hardship fund, warns union
apple, they have a pro phone without 3.5mm headphone jack. n a pro ipad too. But quick to highlight a 3.5mm headphone jack on the new mac mini. the new mac mini looks like a wonderful machine though. glad they doing the long needed upgrades.
I'm a FE developer (Mainly React/Node/React Native Development) and I'm still using a 2012 13" Macbook air (8Gb) as my daily driver at home. There's a noticable difference between it and my work (granted still relatively old) 2017 MBP 17". Running builds and an entire test suite maybe take twice as long but it's overall very usable and I see no reason yet to upgrade.
How would anyone develop apps for the other platforms if this were true?
What sort of home server use cases do people need OS X for? The only thing I could think of is running an Xcode build server but that seems quite niche.
But but but how do I do this on my Mac and Windows machines??

Time to go back to Linux. Hopefully the desktop has improved since the abandonment of 30-year-old UI paradigms for "cleanliness and focus".
I think it is just mistaken in general to use one character set for all purposes. If you try that (as is the case with Unicode), it results usable for most purposes but equally bad for all of them, rather than good.
I guess Apple would be in a unique position here to use their experience from mobile to make a better integrated webcam in their computers as well, without most of those limitations.
[copied from the same thread on Lobsters]

All of these things went live to end-users, without informed consent. Some of this is still live today. I'll kindly ask you to quit the bullshit.
Mini-splits are also way overdue.
they need to pay the bonuses from something!
Does it work with resellers as well?
Here at https://www.coronawiki.org we are also looking for help. I am Dr. Riciu Andrei, board certified dermatologist with a strong interest in infectious diseases

I put together a team of medical professionals, researchers, programmers and data scientists and we're trying to create the most accurate Coronavirus / COVID-19 resource (data stats and accurate medical information). With this project I am trying to help as many people as I can gain access to reliable information and data and stop the fake news that trigger a lot of panic.
Tbh looks like you guys have chosen the third path: neither build the website nor ladle the soup but complain about which of the two things people are doing.
To be honest, yes, I'd like them to say "we messed up, and we finally recognised that, so we're fixing it".

I think it would be amazing if the most valuable, most design-focused company in the world admitted to everyone that they made a mistake. It would do a lot towards allowing everyone else to make mistakes without beating themselves up over it. After all, if the thousands of specialist engineers, paid billions in salaries, given the best equipment in the world, in a company that really (and I mean really) values design, can make a mistake, then it's kinda OK that your home page looks a little crappy on mobile.
Anyone here work in VFX and/or CG in the film industry? I suspect the lidar scanner is borrowing from film sets where they'll do a lidar scan to model the 3d environment. But I'm out of my depth. I'd like to know what the current pro workflow is and then speculate at how this might translate into consumers using the tool.
I was at Pixar 2006-2011. On several occasions, I would see Lasseter hugging various people in his entourage. Hugs so long, I initially wondered if someone had died. It was a bit strange. At a company meeting, in front of the entire staff, he made a comment about how attractive the women at some film festival were. I looked around at people standing next to me thinking I just had misheard. Nobody seemed particularly phased.

So the creepyness was apparent even to this lowly software engineer. Of course it was the tip of the iceberg with Lasseter.

There was this other guy who was an art director or something like that, and we used to call him a walking HR violation. Once he cornered me in the locker room and told me how all his friends are out of shape and have lousy sex. I shrugged it off as just one of the eccentric characters you encounter at the cartoon factory. He was extremely macho, and a fan of Putin, which actually made him somewhat interesting to me politically, though I disagreed with him about practically everything. Then came the 2016 election and his sexism got way out of hand and I couldn't stand him any more. I found it strange that someone with two daughters would be such a misogynist.

Turns out he had been saying creepy things to one of the same women that HR was trying to keep away from Lasseter, limiting her career. She wrote an article about her whole experience: https://byrslf.co/pixars-sexist-boys-club-9d621567fdc9
I'm not sure there's a path forward with fixing W3C standards to be simpler. Once a standard exists and has buy-in from multiple parties (in this case, browser implementers and website developers), it has lock-in; if a simpler standard isn't backwards-compatible with what's already out there, the implementation of the simpler standard isn't compatible with content on the web, and if that content is, say, Facebook, nobody will care about the simpler standard.

OpenGL ended up doing something like this with the death of the fixed-function pipeline (first via OpenGL ES omitting it from the parent standard and then via OpenGL's main standard marking it deprecated and killing it for all cards that don't mark themselves backwards-compatible). But the consequence of this is that some 3D apps simply won't work with some graphics cards (a situation users are accustom to in the brutal Wild West of high-performance gaming, so those incompatible cards aren't crippled in the marketplace for being unable to run older games and such).

Perhaps one could describe a simpler w3c standard that is an orthogonal set of "core" features, and then implement handlers atop that standard for all the legacy crap that browsers can do today? It'd be a hell of a project to even start identifying what the core feature set and architectural layer would look like.
Also consider including progress to date, your rough plan (if any), an indication of how much leadership is in place or required.

Like "b" above: as a potential volunteer it's helpful to know whether you have a plan and just need workers or if it's still early idea phase and you need executive help.
I love my Hello Tushy. Combine that with one of those Charmin Forever Rolls and you will have a roll that lasts months.

While people are out fighting for TP, I rinse myself and use two or three pieces to dry off and that’s it. Nice and clean!
Exactly. Good hardware, running idiotic crippled operating system, just because someone at Apple wants file system concept to be hard.
Viral vigilantes are turning YouTube and TikTok into a weapon
IIRC, they got rid of all this in Plan 9. /bin was where binaries go.
/usr was for user data. There were also /proc, /net, and probably /tmp?
A new OS is entirely buildable, precisely because it isn't beholden to hundreds of millions of words in standards that you'd be required to implement.

You could keep it simple, too, if you didn't need to support existing bloatware.. such as browsers.
Playstation 5: the specs and the tech that deliver Sony's next-gen vision
I just hope it doesn't use a butterfly keyboard. Man, Apple is making home office worse than it needs to be.
> I don't necessarily think it's efficient for businesses to keep cash on hand for weathering events of a magnitude that have literally never happened in the history of their industry.

It is not "cash". It is "cash and cash equivalents" i.e. short term highly liquid securities such as money market funds, or super short term government debt.

No sane CFO keeps cash in DDA accounts in excess of the immediate need if it falls outside the FDIC coverage limits.
I used to, but don't anymore. TMI, but my first one was heated because I thought we needed it. Second one wasn't (we didn't have a hot water tap near the toilet) and it's turned out to be fine. You get used to it. YMMV though, if your area has super cold tap water like Colorado it may not be tolerable.
Surprising. What device are you using?

This does not seem to be the case for my i7-8565U nor my older m3-something. The 8565U for example feels just as snappy as my desktop i7-6700, except it’ll throttle after about 30s.
> The entire world is now communicating by two OSs only..android and iOS.

That's silly and reductionist. The world uses those OSs, but not only those. Almost every person that sits at a desk for work also uses something else. Every student in the US is expected to a use a computer with a keyboard for writing papers. I'd they don't have their own computer to do this, they are provided access to one.
> They are very useful in other situations where a patient nerds to see a specialist ...

That's a fabulous Freudian slip!
Yes, IMO - especially if you have on-site septic.
The history of the web browser looks intriguingly like the history of the terminal, although I'm not sure what lessons we can take from that.
LibreTaxi: Open-source Uber/Lyft alternative
That sucks to hear. I was eyeing the T480s
If they could also make the Mathematica software free to use... now that would be a win.
Kind of, it cuts video off - but audio works just fine.
Coronavirus 9 point recovery plan to avoid global collapse
that's not really accurate since everyone is using different amount of wipes
Same with /tmp - mounting it and allowing executables is a recipe for disaster in a multi-user web hosting environment.
My mechanical engineer co-worker loves the depth sensor on the old iPad Pro. He uses it all the time to shapes into solidworks that he then designs parts to fit onto.

I'm sure he will be excited about this if the sensor is that much better.
I don't think that's the point: if you can ship 16" MacBook Pros with dedicated GPU you could do the same with MacMini; why don't you give me such option? ("you" stands for "Apple" here btw)
Oddly enough, the only result for that string is my post right now.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also, that really only helps searching hacker news, the google/bing time filtering seems broken all over the place.

Ive also noticed news sites causing very old articles to appear new, which is a different issue.
Thanks, I guess the question then is, for how long can the mid and max clock rates be sustained.
Imply Releases a Reference Architecture for Apache Druid on Microsoft Azure
Good luck!
Ping me if you want users to test your browser ;)
Several grumpy opinions about remote work and videoconferencing
While many in a crisis that most harshly affects the poor will agree with you, the US at least has a very "pro business" government which is very unlikely to bite the hand that feeds them (their own hands, really, as many are themselves either come from highly placed positions in business, or are going there, or are very closely connected to them).

If at any time the US comes close to having a government which might threaten to "punish" en-masse (as opposed to a token example here and there) the financiers and corporate executives you speak of, there's likely to be bloody opposition.

I'm reminded of a passage from Jack London's The Iron Heel[1], about a war between the working class and the ruling class, in which the latter answer a threat with these words:

"This, then, is our answer. We have no words to waste on you. When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In roar of shell and shrapnel and in whine of machine-guns will our answer be couched. We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words--Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power."

Even if a revolution ever does occur, after all the blood spilled (which is certain to be copious), it's the self-serving demagogues and opportunists which will manage to grab on to power, as they always do, and it's unlikely that in the end a more just society will emerge. We'll just enter a different nightmare.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
That's just silly. Bankrupting Boeing does not destroy 140 years of aviation technology or make aeronautic engineers forget their training. Neither does it erase the thousands of aircraft flying today. All those assets that Boeing has inefficiently hoarded now becomes available for other, more competent organisations and businesses.
I have no way to supply the bidet with water, since the faucet is on the other side if the room and used for the laundry machine. I know splitters exist. But running a hose across the room is impractical...

Water collector for the toilet is build into the wall...
Privacy should be a right. In the USA it should be up there with the Bill of Rights. The only way it can be gone around is with a warrant or something similar. Cops don't like that and neither do police state regimes.
Simple- people other than you enjoy going to restaurants and find value in them.