skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(providing more detailed references)

POSIX specifically calls out that it doesn't guarantee that the path is "/bin/sh":

107271 Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either
107272 /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh, and should be determined by interrogation of the PATH returned by
107273 getconf PATH, ensuring that the returned pathname is an absolute pathname and not a shell
107274 built-in.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/s...

POSIX mentions "#!" several times, but doesn't require it; saying things like "on systems that support executable scripts (the "#!" construct)".

As the lack of a hard-codable path is frustrating, it recommends setting the shebang at install-time:

107279 Furthermore, on systems that support executable scripts (the "#!" construct), it is
107280 recommended that applications using executable scripts install them using getconf PATH to
107281 determine the shell pathname and update the "#!" script appropriately as it is being installed
107282 (for example, with sed). For example:
Why is it that there is so much advertising for investing in gold? Many of the podcasts that I listen to advertise it, I see ads for it everywhere. I would think that unlike stocks where you must buy through a broker (for a fee), gold can easily be bought by anyone. So what makes the business of helping people invest in gold so popular?
I'm still waiting for the ability to be notified for all non-bot messages in a channel, which they told me they were working on, uh, 7 years ago.
When are these features available? It's not listed, and it doesn't seem to be in the current version.
I think this is mainly a historical thing with Apple's product naming. Their 'pro' designation doesn't mean what it used to mean and so a lot of the denigration is probably more targeting Apple than their users.
For any q?

Yes.

The hardest real number to approximate with rationals is (1+sqrt(5))/2. Its approximations that come closest are of the form fib(n+1)/fib(n) where fib(n) is the n'th fibonacci number. The error converges to 1/(sqrt(5) fib(n)^2). None are within 1/(10 q^2).

To learn more about this, read up on continued fractions.
This sounds great.

How suitable do you think this is for CPU-intensive work? I'm interested in having servers for scientific-computational work, which would be rather CPU-heavy. It would be great to offload some of this to a nearby browser for bits and pieces that desire low-latency.
For most users that get that nasty aftertaste, it's not as much that you can't remove or disable those ads/unexpected feeds, but that the manufacturer or core team that built it had the mentality to put it there in the first place.
I think I must be the only person alive who actually prefers Pascal-style syntax (VB, VB.NET, Delphi, PL/SQL) to C-style syntax. There are lots of small nice things, such as distinct keywords for end blocks ("End Try", "End Loop", "End If"), and syntactic sugar like the "With" keyword. Intellisense in Visual Studio still seems to work better in VB.NET than C#. It does look comparatively simple; but I'd prefer the complexity of my code to be mitigated by the syntax, not exacerbated by it.
Facebook Switches to New Timekeeping Service
There have been revolutions aplenty in the past. Can you suggest one or two that haven't ended as described?

To make another reference, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Cynicism is not very appealing, but seems the most realistic.
The max monthly spend is awesome, I'l probably try it out just because of that :)
Its a bit unclear to me though how exactly the heroku deploy works? Is it basically a replacement for the web dynos that heroku provides, but then still connecting to existing postgres instances for example?
What are the limits for the redis store? I'm using it on heroku but constantly running into max connection issues, if you can improve that experience it is also a great win.
Paying people is only net zero if the people being paid go and do the same thing the people paying would have done with that money.

In this case, I'm arguing because of the economic class of the ditch diggers that this is not the case. The ditch diggers will spend the money locally, rather than saving it, on things that give them greater utility than what the people paying for ditches would have gotten (which is most likely just saving it).

I agree asking people to dig ditches for the money is stupid, but in reality they'd either be doing something productive that wouldn't have otherwise been done for structural reasons (building national parks, windmills, solar panels, etc., things where there is a positive externality that prevents the market from doing it) or receiving the money for free.
the customers may come and they may not come , but if the plant stays shut the whole company will shut down specially after having a lot of capx to get a new production line for making model y.
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I can see it now. The get-togethers where you ask your tech-illiterate friends and family, "have you heard of Burrito?" and they all look at you funny. As opposed to, "have you heard of Helm?", and only that one friend who worked on a boat for a summer gets excited that he can add something to conversation.

Language needs an upgrade
In some animals it's impossible to observe breeding at all.

In other cases, two different species can breed.
I see employers just requiring you to have a workspace at home.

> Your crappy internet keeps cutting out? Not our problem. Poor work performance. You're fired.
Having a more prominent 'locations' or 'regions' link on the website navigation/homepage might be helpful. It was the first thing I looked for even before pricing. It's currently a bit hidden in the docs.

I know locations are probably not super important to you guys as you see it as a starting point or something super flexible, but I always find myself drawn to the concrete stuff like that. Largely as a measure of how mature the product is.
It's been years since I had one, but IIRC it could change based on folding the keyboard back behind the computer. I vaguely remember having connectivity issues with the keyboard (sometimes needing to remove and reattach it so that I could type), and that may also have caused issues for the automatic mode switching.
I wonder, if people just stopped working or moved on some covid related project?
Probably the systematic sexual harassment he enabled at Pixar is the thing being compared to.

Dude’s a shithead in more ways than one.
Some people told me from two to eight weeks, but I don't know. I live in British Columbia, so would want to know what to do in British Columbia.
I'm happy for any improvement to the chaos but I that statement about "fancy" shortcuts doesn't meam they're getting rid of any. Keyboards are the fastest way to navigate a well designed system.

Also I hope this doesn't mean they're forcing that input box on us again. That was a fustercluck.
(and the answer is, in part, "into the air, water, etc., where it kills many, many people each year")

https://qz.com/568450/fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-every-ye...
The third world finds this comparison rather offensive.
Asked support, rolled out over the "next couple of weeks." Typical fanfare, no way to opt in or out. No way of knowing when it'll all change, or the ability to give a heads up to your company.
Percentages and dollar amounts don't matter. A low income person paying taxes hinders their ability to buy food and housing and clothing. A billionaire paying taxes means they have 6 megayachts instead of 7. It's apples and oranges.

It is unethical to allow billionaires to thrive while people die from poverty.
google cache:

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

teaching a man to fish:

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives
I wasn't fond of the windows start menu when they decided to replace the list style with the tiles. But that is long gone. Long live the windows start menu.

But seriously If ipadOS doesn't at least allow for backwards compatibility with the software from MacOS. The iPad will never be a replacement for your Mac computer. It will only be an expensive surrogate.

The windowing OS vs Touch OS is definitely a good point. But here we are coming full circle to adding a track pad to a touch os. Sound like apple is a bit confused about what they're offering also. I can't imagine them ever making the ipadOS on par with the Mac operating system. Unless we can start running any type of code on it. It will be the handicapped device.

The Surface pros make great tablets when you ditch the windows app store and run android APK's on them instead.
Some of the sites listed here are good: https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites
Cryptoasset Sell-Off Was Driven by Short-Term Holders
I too am interested in this. My uneducated guess is that there are very severe liquidity issues, so everything and anything is getting sold. Isn't that why the Fed is doing the repo operations?

And I guess another possibility is that the US is already running a large deficit, and that is probably going to get much worse shortly. So maybe some are losing faith in the safety of treasuries?

I certainly would like to hear from others on this.
How do you currently host your Docker container at edge nodes?

(It's a facetious question: unless you're a $100B company you're not doing anything of the sort.)
> It is technically reasonable to test everyone once a day, and quarantine the positives - but it cannot literally happen here in the next few weeks. The vice president just said, "Do not get a test if you don't have symptoms - to preserve them for the sickest people."

I'm not sure we can rely on that. It sounds like tests on asymptomatic carriers aren't reliable.

"The tests looks for the viral RNA by RT-PCR. This is a test based on viral RNA from swabs of nose and throat. Corona-symptoms appear due to viral replication destroying cells which we cough or snees/snot out."
https://twitter.com/_Adora_Belle_/status/1237704056489082880
There is a reason why money was used for eons - planned economies failed horribly and the logistics of it likewise would utterly break. I accept that it is theoretically possible for a better system to be come up with but in practice we have been kept waiting. Even when there was a nominal alternative in the USSR their "economics" were nonsense backed by ideology even by the standards of questionable economics.

I would be interested in seeing theoretical and hypothetical alternative system models but sadly what I have come across is more like "alternative" in the alternative medicine sense. Sellinf questionable cures and railing against "big pharma" rhetoric and attacks and little to none on rigorous models or experimentalism to actually build anything.
2020: the year that did not exist
> the risk of multitasking

Do you worry about iOS's overaggressive autocorrect?

(I'm just kidding, I know people are actually pretty close to as fast and accurate on mobile vs. desktop/laptop: https://userinterfaces.aalto.fi/typing37k/)
There's no reasonable scenario in which the water supply is interrupted by this current flap. All this panic buying means is there will be a huge amount of unnecessary plastic waste this year.
You should solve this by making one request to a db api layer (use GraphQL!) And have that layer do the back and forth with the db, from right next to it.

Holding transactions open for long distance round trips is going to get you into trouble in a myriad of ways. It does not scale.
I'm sure that's part of it but going remote also introduces a ton a workflow impediments as the team adjusts.
When demand drops for housing, that's often because people have moved in with relatives, moved in with partners, etc. After whatever triggered that, many might decide they like paying less rent/mortgage costs, so demand will never fully recover.
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We decided to release our products publicly due to the outbreak of COVID-19, and will be offering our communications tool free to any doctors who want to coordinate between clinics during the pandemic.

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Russ Roberts and Tyler Cowen on Covid-19 [video]
Willful or malicious suppression is only a theory as of now, with hardly any indication to back it up. This kind of insinuations stemming from a vacuous sense of moral superiority isn't helping us tide over this crisis.

That one perceives something to be apparently consistent with any particular world view does not make that worldview the correct one.

I doubt anyone can talk with moral certitude in such matter, when the discussion has devolved into unreasonable degree of polarization and hostility.

All I can say is that, this isn't the time for another cold war.
nothing wrong with the disinfectant property of strong concentrations of alcohol, but I assume institutional food service type places are told to use diluted bleach because it is not flammable and is safe and stable (not evaporatey) to sit for periods of time in an open bucket.
I think the comment's material point is, why put a nuclear plant in arms reach of such groups? It's a good point.

I would argue that most people are not talking about putting a nuclear plant in, say, Somalia. I think most people realize there have to be some preconditions met before you can really even think about using nuclear power. For the most part, if you are able as a nation to construct such a plant, you likely have the security infrastructure to secure the place. In fact, you likely have one of the more powerful security infrastructure buildouts in your region.
Macs aren't even 10% of Apple's revenue, so it can't do that much to their bottom line.

I don't think that would be a great experience, but if it made the iPad into a stronger competitor to Surface Pro and similar Windows convertibles, it might bring in enough new business to counteract any drop in Mac sales.

Apple has their Handoff feature for moving program state from one device to another, maybe that could be adapted for on-device handoff between a Mac and iPadOS version of the same software.
It may be the auto rotate. I think if the tilt of axis is over the angle to enable tablet mode it will enter it automatically and ask you if that's what you want. You have to choose a default and it won't ask again.
They make the argument that it would take very little effort for MS to maintain VB.NET.

If that's true, I wonder if part of the reason MS is killing VB is that it doesn't serve any necessary purpose, and it is simply uncool. I wonder if "uncoolness" is a primary factor.

It sounds silly to write, but think about it -- technologies live and die by coolness. MS is doing everything they can right now to shake off their uncool past, and VB is certainly a relic of the uncool past.

Developer share is crucial. You get a lot of developer share by being cool. Thus, being cool is very important. Damn, I want to drop a Medium article on hackernews now with my hot new take.
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30% market crash in less than two weeks and an impending Nationwide shutdown with predicted 20% unemployment is probably a collapse - or at least the closest we've been to one since the great depression. Especially combined with other indicators.
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Right, but the monthly bill for 100 non-remote workers at WeWork is 5-10 times that just for the space. As I said, their smallest offices (~6 person -- maybe 10 if you really crowd) are $6k/mo.
I really don't need that much extra memory or performance, I thoroughly dislike the touch bar, and I want a slimmer/lighter form factor.

My at-home hobby work is in Golang and Python, and not particularly compute-intensive stuff. Neither of those have huge heavy toolchains.

Really the main thing driving an upgrade from my minimum-spec 2015 Air is the Retina display.
> You do lose the inherent value in the organization. Planes and humans don't create value on their own they have to be organized into a system.

Isn't the problem in that system itself, and thus the collapse of that particular system is a net-benefit. A better run company will absorb these sell-offs and reassign priorities.
There was no tablet mode in Windows 8.

Windows 10 has a tablet mode, but it still sucks compared to Windows 8's "default mode". It is actually better to use tablets in regular, "windowing OS" mode than in Windows 10's tablet mode.

For me Windows 8 is an example showing one can make a decent mouse and tablet UI. Obviously it will be worse than the two, but at some point there is an advantage of having a common UI rather than specialized.
What Makes People Engage with Math – Grant Sanderson – TEDxBerkeley
Like any manufacturer, they are trying to bring down the amount of breakage, and removing electrical connectors and mechanical connections is one way to do that. And when you want things to be smaller you don't really have much of a choice anyway.

At the same time, the only reason those slots were there in the first place was so that a manufacturer could build one main board and then offer different configurations by just swapping out some elements. That benefit no longer holds since you can do the same on a single PCB and still offer the same options. The side-effect of users being able to change it after the fact is lost, but when it wasn't a selling point for the manufacturer anyway it doesn't seem to matter to them.

While not ideal for every user, the mass market doesn't really care. They will probably never upgrade a machine in their lifetime and simply 'upgrade' to a different machine instead.
Are there any known security loopholes in the issues pipeline that are yet to be addressed?

I'm interested in knowing if halting updates for a browser mean much to real world users?
Hi Riciu. This looks like a very promising resource. One constructive comment: your dashboards could benefit from some text above clarifying things like [i]some countries test more symptomatic people than others [ii]recoveries are much lower because recovery takes time and in most places most of the cases are new etc [iii] many cases are undocumented. And possibly linking to your articles on the same subject.

This may be clear to you, but perhaps not to some people using the data to assess the relative safety of their country or age group.
That they get propped up is a major reason no competitors appear. No one thinks it's wise to try to invest a huge sum, when their competitors are entities backed by governments.

It wouldn't be that long for new companies to pop up if the only two players collapsed. People can just buy the existing facilities for making parts and assembly.
> Because wasting energy on a 4 GHz base clock is completely pointless

That's not how base clock works. Base clock is not min clock. Base clock is what it's "guaranteed" to hit under sustained load if TDP is respected. It's the TDP clock. A 4ghz base clock CPU will still be far, far below that when idle.
In a sense, it's the government. It's just that, thanks to massive donations, committee stuffing and other shenanigans, they got to write the regulations themselves.
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> The best solution I've found is mapping caps lock to control on hold, and escape on press.

wow. just wow.
Only if it works. Which often it doesn't. And by doesn't I don't mean it doesn't do it 100% correctly but I mean it doesn't find a program or file even if you type the whole name completely. It just gives no result at all for some terms.
Yes.

I've been preaching to people I see complaining about the lack of TP. Get one for every toilet. Pat dry. No struggle to find TP. Easy peasy.
What skills do you have outside of front-end development? How many different frameworks do you know?
Let's say it did cost a million to certify the valve. That's covered in the first 100 valves sold.

From then on, which should be like after a week, every single dollar is profit.
I've lost my job as an Unity game programmer 2 months ago. I've found another one working as a C#/ASP.NET core developer for a big multinational wholesale chain. I work here since a month ago.

Payment is 2x better and I find Web stuff being more interesting and rewarding than game programming. Also it's less stressful and it's better to do something mainstream than working in a niche. It means more opportunities.

I've went through about 20 something job interviews until I had enough to chose from.

Good luck!
Bankruptcy courts almost always try something similar to that before closing a company. Both kinds are called "bankruptcy", but they have completely different results, what makes this all very confusing.

Anyway, it's not a new idea, and not something that needs any pushing, it's the usual way to handle company failures.
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
A bum gun is not a bidet.
Microsoft doesn't need to build Windows 10 from the ground up; they have a Windows 10.
It sounds like they're still pushing security updates.
> We’ll continue to prioritize any updates related to security, which will be included in Chrome 80.
I hope that Google and other companies will encourage remote teams and divisions after this event. Having the ability for some teams to primarily work from home might provide some hermetic guarantee of continued development and liveness during a time of crisis.
First of all, calling ethnicities subspecies creates a political mess and such arguments have often been used for all kind of injustices.

Secondly I'd say that the differences are very fluid and it's hard to pinpoint any hard barriers. The "European" ethnicity only developed in the past 4000 years. Migrations during all that time make the picture even more difficult.
This is true, most Lean stuff is about actually having a product development plan that also factors in marketing/consumer feedback loops via continuous refinement of a set of hypothesis.

Far too many companies do product development without much of a plan at all and just do whatever the loudest customers are complaining about, some trends in the industry, fickle management ideas, or a similar bug-driven approach even before it's fully mature.
Such product would cannibalise their line, so they'll never make it.

They wouldn't need the Mini, and the mid-tier would be too far from the Mac Pro.