skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should be able to aid each other, in person, on learning how to manage these ailments, which are frequently associated to a lack of social fulfillment, as I've personally experienced on myself. Gamifying it is literally the last option I would recommend to anyone suffering from anxiety, stress or depression, as blindly following an app's dictates goes essentially against the hard, introspective, and highly critical work one needs to put in in order to start leaning towards being at peace with oneself.

I'm not even going to elaborate on how the "reward" function is plainly ill-conceived, for intance.

Please, talk to those you love about their suffering; talk to them about yours. Put yourself in the hands of a professional, if you need it. Stop looking for crutches.
Instead of a bailout, lets do a stock offering, with the government as the purchaser. This way, the government can sell it's shares later on and get the public's money back.
Coronavirus Spurs Demand for Face Masks – But They're Surprisingly Hard to Make
I realize this is probably a work in progress, but as a suggestion, it would really benefit from better navigation:

- Sorting (particularly by # of volunteers, to find ones that aren't filled up)

- Searching by string

- Maybe tags that can be searched by? (skillsets wanted, etc.)

- Projects could list an estimated number of needed volunteers; "Does 86 mean they don't need any more?"

Overall, excellent idea and it looks great so far. I just think the above would make it much easier for people to find the right place to contribute.
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It won't help you, because this is probably managed by your IT department, but LTSC releases are generally not recommended. Those are primarily meant for systems like ATMs or industrial devices.
Why Privacy Needs to Power the Next Generation of Apps
> The only exception is a symlink /bin/sh to Bash in the Nix store

I only briefly tried out Nix a while back, but doesn't /usr/bin/env also exist (to facilitate shebangs)?
Then make a global website? Or post a project on this site that is global in nature?
Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app
The branding of schools using ISA's as "modern" and "tuition-free" (and the implied message of "better") is not going to do any favors to the reputation that these schools get for deceiving their students.
That implies exploitation is not defined in the transaction between the individuals directly affected, but via a third party acting as a higher power.

I agree, but it "smells" weird that we've included "feel" in that set in this specific context. If neither party feels they're exploiting or being exploited in an employment agreement paying well above minimum wage, then by what standard is a third party judging their transaction that we can conclude they "feel" wrongly?

We start to go down a pretty dark path when we take "mutual consent" off the table as the gold standard for two-party interactions. There are absolutely criteria of things in society for which we do that, but we hold them to a very high standard of scrutiny, and I'm not convinced "That employer is underpaying their employee with too low a six-figure salary" meets that high standard of scrutiny.
It would be nice if they improved it, but I think they have their priority right at least... people are taking a lot of actual photographs with their phone selfie camera while the computer camera is mostly for video conferencing.
> No JS JIT, only interpreter. I don’t care that much about JS performance as a user and the difference in complexity is astounding.

One of the cool techniques we used in earlier versions of JSC (although someone told me it's been dialed back since then) was caching property accesses / method calls in the bytecode interpreter. This technique ended up getting published by someone else in a different context:

https://web.cs.upb.de/cp/download.py?key=ecoop10

I think there's more to be explored along these lines.
A third of the US population suffers from high blood pressure [1]. More than 100 million U.S. adults are now living with diabetes or prediabetes [2]. About 15 million Americans have cancer of some sort [3]. About 10 million people are immunocompromised or immunosuppressed [4]. So, you're not wrong! The high risk factor cohort is enormous, and the more risk factors you have, the higher your risk of death is (based on data coming out of Italy). A lot of folks are going to die from ailments they had and knew about, or ailments they had but didn't know about.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/facts.htm

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor...

[3] https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html

[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=americans+immunocompromised
I've a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with an i7 at 3.3 Ghz. Is the new Air with a quadcore i7 going to be a decent CPU upgrade compared to what I got in practical terms, or should I wait for the next Macbook Pro? Consider that I don't want to go > 13" screen size. Thanks.

Relayed story: when I run the Redis test in my Macbook, it is able to stop everything, like if the kernel scheduler was not able to balance between the test and the other tasks, even if I've the Chorome window open and using it. If I open Virtual Box and run the test into a virtualized Linux system, the test runs in a similar time without any usability problem for the other Mac apps. This is how bad scheduling can go, but also how much more efficient the Linux implementation of certain system related stuff can be.
> lots of quality concerns from compression and bandwidth issues that make camera quality kind of irrelevant

Better quality (lower noise) video reduces compression artefacts (or alternatively bandwidth requirements), because video codec doesn't need to waste bandwidth encoding all that high entropy noise.
Yeah, but the point is not to save the airline, it's to prevent a cascading effect. Not that i support thid bailout one bit. Unlike 2008 i don't see airlines going under cascadig beyond US regional commercial flights not being available for a few months. Cargo will be fine, anything international will be fine.
I'll wait for some benchmarks then. Maybe there's not much improvement. I see Apple is comparing last model that had 2 cores with this new 4 cores and saying there's a 2x improvement.
"Taking a lot of time" is not synonymous with "taking forever".

By the way he phrased his comment, even I could tell this was a project with personal, non-commercial ends.

On this basis, his product will ultimately be: accomplished, or not accomplished but having enriched himself a ton by mere virtue of the pursuit.

The entire world is not only communicating via Android and iOS. Those are the predominant OSs; however, we've all heard of Linux, haven't we?
in my experience it is very popular to do in older demographics.
I have a fancy Toto Bidet that was half bought as a joke. Best present ever. It is so over the top with things like bowl mister, heated seat, a vacuum and an air filter to filter out smells. But seriously it does a great job of keeping everything clean without any TP.
Heh curl to sudo slippery slope :P

The script is just picking the binary for your OS/arch and putting in PATH. We have instructions for doing it yourself here https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/installing-flyctl/#comma...

Or you can download straight from github: https://github.com/superfly/flyctl/releases

Hopefully we can get on snap soon!
Anyone can create a project on this website. If you want to help your own neighbors and don't feel these help, post a project.
Sorry but no, the problem isn't of industry closing down in France and opening back in Belgium, you're misrepresenting things. There has been a long history of the idea that we Europeans don't really need to "make things", that we could relocate our industry wherever it's more "efficient" (i. e. cheaper, because mostly of lower environmental and social safeguards, and because nobody directly pays for the externalities -- that's good old imperialism, colonialism in new clothes IMO) and keep the know-how, engineering, and power for us while Chinese or others would do the dirty work for us. And this stupid idea began to crumble a few years back already, and is now suddenly proven dead to everyone (hopefully).

There is such a thing as sovereignty, and it doesn't matter at which scale it happens; sovereignty implies having control on whatever things you can't do without. Can Europe or the US be sovereign without steel mills? maybe. Car manufacturing? possibly. Chemistry and pharmaceutical production? not so sure. Oil? see our leaders grovelling at MBS' knees while he's butchering Yemen. Ah.

In the US, some top brass came recently to the realisation that the US can't make a war plane without Chinese input anymore. That may be a problem sooner or later.

Similarly, the impact of the transfer of industries and money across Europe isn't a problem per se, it's only a problem because nothing provides any equilibrium -- no transfers at any significant scales. So far Germany sends cars and machines across Europe, and gets paper in exchange. At times, some important German minister or another goes harping that someday, that TARGET2 balance will have to be cleared. Does this even make sense? Can we have a European money, but not a European industry? I don't think so. Something will have to give at some point or another.
You can't just look at the money supply. Let's say that we hold the money supply perfectly constant. Then one dollar becomes worth, not a fixed amount, but a fixed fraction of the economy (assuming velocity remains constant).

For example, let's say that there are 1000 dollars in circulation, and the velocity is 2 - on average, each dollar changes hands twice in a year. So the GDP is $2000.

Ten years pass. We learn to be more efficient. The economy produces 20% more than it did ten years ago. But the GDP is still $2000, because that's how much money there is.

That seems unreasonable to me. If I saved a dollar, why does that dollar give me a claim, not just to what the dollar would have bought when I saved it, but also a claim on a part of all the growth since I saved it?
I read it, and the first sentence says "The EARN IT Act intends to combat child exploitation online". That's the worst thing you could lead with. It makes it sound like to support you, I must be in favor of child exploitation. It is the political equivalent not just of putting your foot in your mouth, but opening your act with it. How else could the White House respond but by restating its commitment to combating child exploitation? That is nonsense of course, but managing such nonsense is the political art. You need political logic, not real logic.

It's the same reason why they use names like the "EARN IT" act, so anyone who opposes it looks like they're against EARNing things. It's American to EARN things, what are you a commie? If you're opposing people like this, don't make your opponent's moves for them. Lead with your strong point, which is that this would destroy security on the internet, undermining national security and making it easier for criminals to steal your identity and bank account.
How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting international tech hiring?
Meh. I see a lot more rank stupidity than panic. And I'm pretty sure it's coming from us and not the Russians.
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only using ipad because of procreate.

I don't know if that's sad or good of apple.. Is the iOS ecosystem a unique enabler of procreate?

As an os for a large form factor device, iOS is a JOKE in terms of UX. It's still just a giant iPhone.
Doesn't the bidet take its water supply from the toilet's own valve? That's how I'd do it, just add a tap to the outlet of the valve (https://i.imgur.com/Or7mhpW.png). No need to turn off your home water supply to install it, either.
I agree that we can't end all inequalities anytime soon. Men still can't bear children, and women still bear the burden of doing so. Etc.

But that's no reason not to eliminate discrimination when we can.
Flat statements about what strategies are or aren't options don't seem helpful. It's not a good option, ideally we'll have total containment, but it's important that we not see it as a betrayal if it's decided in a couple weeks that total containment isn't feasible.
A significant portion of the computing for iOS/Android is also powered by offloaded cloud computing, which run a vastly more diverse array of OS environments (though to what extent the myriad varieties of Linux distros are diverse from one another is semantic/subjective).
This Plan 9 nostalgia weirds me out. It never happened! It was vaporware all along!

It's like having fond memories of Hillary Clinton's inauguration speech.
Correcting self, the stand mentioned is 1K.
Take a look at how ChromeOS accomplishes Crostini in containers for a great way to get everything you want with near-zero security hit.
There are 2nd order effects to consider, though. We've created a huge moral hazard in the financial markets by rewarding financially risky behavior and cementing the idea that if a company gets large enough it's not allowed to fail.

Airlines spending every spare penny they had, and in some cases taking out debt, to gamble on the market and keeping nothing in the bank as a safety net is one such side-effect.
I agree many of them are not worth implementing, but I do also think wanting a new browser from scratch because the existing one is no good. (Although it may sometimes be suitable to use parts of codes from other programs including web browsers.)

A lot of features should be omitted, and also some more things added to provide better user control.

In addition to being too complicated, I also think web browsers are overused. Other programs often work better. Switch discussion forums (including this one) to NNTP, text-based interactive services to telnet or SSH, email to SMTP, chat to IRC, many kinds of calculations to local programs which do not use the internet at all, etc.
My main concern regarding a bidet is that it'll leak.

I've heard horror stories about bidets causing thousands of dollars worth of damages after the water hoses that supply them leak and spill hundreds of gallons of water on to the floor when their owners are away from home.
Well my "programming laptop" spends all of its CPU these days on corporate garbage such as splunkd, which regularly melts down, some kind of corporate managed software updater which is terrible, Zoom, and trying to render dashboards from Grafana which is among the most flagrantly wasteful javascript hacks ever devised. It doesn't help me much that vim and screen are efficient.
pro's of using 9p, /bin is where everything goes but you can bind any directory to it. so no worrying about running out of disk space since you can mount more disks.

Also, gobolinux tries to mimic this behavior as well.
https://www.gobolinux.org/
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I think a big issue is where the average programmer begins his journey. If you start with visual studio and all you have to do is click “build” or “run” and all the magic occurs in the back, of course you’ll be lost later on. If you start with C and have to write Makefiles or compile simple programs on the command line, you’ll learn much more and probably won’t run into this later. It’s tough to understand what’s going on when so much is happening behind the scenes.
If you create the files on the linux side as compared to shared windows folder, the performance seems to be good for me. Before vscode wsl plugin, the only way to work was to open files from windows and use the linux cli but the plugin made it so that you can stream files from the linux, which removed the need for using any shared drive for me. Perf bonus of switching to linux only workflow was significant, you should give it a try.
It's a good analogy because fit and lucky are hard to tell apart in evolution too.
Congrats on the launch! If you're looking at CockroachDB (looking at some other comment on this thread), you should reach out to us if you haven't already. Your design here seems like the exact kind of thing we're hoping to push towards.
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I genuinely don't know, I tend to avoid resellers. :\
Does refined not mean that they took out some of the bad parts? That's about as close as you can get to admission of a fuckup as you can get in sales copy
Been wondering about those. Did you use their distro or install another one on it?
It is not more pixelated. It's like scaling up all fonts and widgets by 2x, but still rendering them at 4k. So, the fonts and widgets are retina-sharp. Imagine using 4k as the resolution, but rendering all 14pt fonts as 28pt.

Though I get why you might think it's pixelated from stephenr's description.
I usually balk at pricing tables too, but real world has shown to be different. One of our big customers saved $130K/mo by switching to us!
I like the concept but I admit to not really understanding how they work in practice. For the in-toilet ones, how do you aim them? Just scooting around? They don't dribble poop-water down your cheeks? The handheld ones just baffle me. How do you get them in place and spread your cheeks at the same time?

I feel like I'm going to need a stack of wet-wipes and a disposable towel the first time I actually use a bidet.
Mildly interesting!
I edited a second after you submitted. No, everything is built into the wall. You have to destroy it to get to the pipes. Not even a "door" or some tile to open. It's all sealed away.
can someone weigh in on this vs thorsten ball's series of books? to my untrained eye they look fairly similar (at least thorsten's first book) but I'm not sure.

edit: i should say i'm wondering which is more appropriate for me. my experience is that i took a PL class during my MS where we implemented a small recursive descent parser for a language (and the concomitant logic for evaluating the language). i'm interested in getting better at writing languages.
Yeah, but that's a lot of us. Obviously there are some programmers out there doing computation-bound work, but an awful lot of us aren't. If you're doing web stuff or making apps, then basically any computer manufactured in the last 5-8 years is going to be fine. I do iOS side work on a 2012 quad-core Mac Mini. It's totally fine.

It's OK to geek out about hardware, if that's your thing. But it's not really necessary for most people -- even programmers.
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> But macOS is buggy enough as it is

I really do not understand this sentiment at all. Mind you, I am decidedly on Mojave. I am not discounting the experience of others, but macOS has been rock stable for me since about Leopard. I had kernel panics back on Tiger, but that was their first OS for x86 so I can forgive that.
Exactly my thought. This is pretty much a Macbook.
They devoured Primesense, beloved of robot makers everywhere, and they've gone and abandoned their technology.
NYC Construction Projects Plug Away Even with City Shutting Down
My Nextdoor is also a great source of information about which local stores still have things in stock, which businesses are changing their hours, etc.
I'm waiting for Apple to release an ARM laptop before I consider upgrading my 2013 rMBP.
If I'm interpreting the news correctly it seems that even a lot of not-so-old people (30 and up) seem to be ending up in intensive care with some frequencey, but that aspect of it (bad pneumonia) just isn't deadly in healthy people under 50 if you are given quality care. Elderly people seem to suffer myocarditis or failure of other organs.

What's worrying about that though, is that the high survival of healthy people under 50 seems to be conditional on the availability of ventilators and ecmo. Few countries can guarantee that in all scenarios.
What hiring?
OP here. I've worked at two embedded software shops, and every time we are working on a new product and cramming to get it shipped, we run out of code space. Each of those times, PR's stay open for 2-3 weeks waiting to be merged until engineers can work their magic and reduce the size.

I've even seen instances where deals take place. We'll clean up our module today and you can merge your 1k feature, but we'll need 1k in 2 weeks and you need to find it for us by then.

Software engineers usually laugh when I tell them about my struggles with code space and memory. I do enjoy it though.
> At a past gig I had to change 5 different repositories (5 separate PRs, all needing approval) to send an email. In a rails app that would have been a trivial task.

That sounds like no thought was put in the system before development. Well thought out scopes & contracts between services should not create a situation like that. Reminds me of a commenter on HN who were rolling back changes to all microservices if one service needed a rollback. These kinds of issues are dead giveaways that devs are paying lip-service to "microservices." Also, devs need to understand that they don't need to be on microservices or on the latest fad. Use what works for the team. A 10-team of devs cannot necessarily adopt workflows of a FAANG.
Very good, as always. I spotted a couple of typos: “inheritred”, “get out hands”.
> It was vaporware all along!

I don't think “vapourware” means what you think it means.

To elaborate, the comparison with an alternative universe is
silly, since there are actually papers that people can read and there is
actually code that people can use. So saying that “it never happened”
is wrong.
I think people are talking about masks, medical supplies, medicine manufacturing are all critical to the national security and should be brought back. This should be taken as a learning experience as well as a national disaster. Lest we forget in a year. Those industries can be subsidized as they are critical and we can't trust other countries for those supplies in pandemics and other world disasters.
By emphasizing a past date, the headline (and article itself) gives the impression that the record was set over 5000 years ago, and that this is the first time the gold/silver ratio has been higher than at that point in time. "Since 1940" would provide better context, and would not prompt such confusion. It seems likely that the reference to 5000 years is specifically to sensationalize the news and draw clicks.

As an illustration of the absurdity of such a style, one could equivalently put "in over <x> thousand years" in the headline of pretty much any metric that has been on an upward trend through its history.
I sincerely wonder if Apple would just test how much they can ask for their products.
Vacuum? Do tell. I would want foamy soap dispensing too, and adjustable nozzles/pressure would be a treat.

edit: AHA! Vacuum as in air filtration...I was imagining an auto spa...
This again. No examples, just spin. I'm not sure what is going on in Russia regarding COVID, but I do remember an early full closure of borders with China, now they close entry to all foreign nationals, they are building emergency hospitals and so on.

It seems they are taking this threat at least somewhat seriously.

These people think we are stupid so they can continue to push this crap forever. Maybe they are right.
Intel will make you whatever you want if you order 100k+ of them.
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