skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which reasonably-popular modern languages can be reasonably said to have ignored cross compilation? Interpreted languages like JavaScript and Python obviously don't have any problem, JIT languages like .NET and Java explicitly have a cross-platform layer, and modern compiled languages like Go and Rust specifically have cross-compilation as a goal. Rust still needs a libc though, but that's not Rust's fault, that's the result of trying to work together with the system instead of DIYing everything. (see: problems with Go doing system calls on BSDs, Solaris, etc)

You can't look at C which started in the 1970s and C++ which started in the 1980s and have expected them to even consider cross-compilation, when Autoconf wasn't even released until 1991.
As long as you don't name it tmux.
Thanks for the feedback -- I'd be curious to understand what about the Azure UI you find most striking. For obvious reasons, I don't have much experience with it.

I'm generally fond of our console, particularly the tools that show both the API and CLI invocations for most UI activities. On the other hand, I work on core virtualization, so the things I want to express tend to be very simple ("make me a giant VM", "make me a gianter VM", etc. :)
Change is inevitable. How many governments were designed to support providing healthcare to their citizens but do so today? (Over 30)
The Internet Archive just announced a no-waitlist book lending due to COVID-19, I'd guess their servers might not be too happy about the inrush of users.

http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...
TIL U+2103 DEGREE CELSIUS and U+2109 DEGREE FAHRENHEIT.
You said yourself you managed to find a case where you ran out of memory. Why do you find it "very hard to believe", knowing nothing about his use cases, that his job doesn't involve exactly the sort of situations that consume vast amounts of RAM. Why do people insist with such conviction that "it doesn't happen to me, therefore it's inconceivable that it happens to someone else, doing something totally different than what I'm doing, into which I have no insight". Baffling.
The proposed approach is correct for the proposed use-case. The problem is, lots of UI state isn't handsome, core data like in this example. What about storing the width of a resizable panel? Or the state of a dropdown that can be open or closed? Do you create a dozen little flags in your store for these? Or do you put a flag on each domain object (todo list item, for example) that's not actually relevant to your business logic (you don't want dropdown state getting stored in your database)? Typically you'd make this a local flag internal to each component instance, but what happens when something else in your UI cares about it and has to respond to it? And any of these answers will bind it to your UI concerns, in all different ways. In fact, this state is directly UI-pertinent. It doesn't mean anything outside of the UI.

There are no catch-all answers to these questions. In every case, when you decide where to put your state, you're making compromises. Often, very uncomfortable ones. It is my opinion that the most intrinsically hard thing about building and maintaining UIs is managing state. Unlike most software where "state" is really just either data or an implementation detail along the way to producing output, UIs have real, irregular, messy state baked into their bones. State that can't be eliminated by refactoring, because it really means something.
I think people who mismanage situations should be fired. We fire our POTUS roughly every 8 years. My mgmt has made decisions during the pandemic that have endangered me and my coworkers. I think they should be fired as well.
> Using this system, we ran an experiment where we turned off the availability of personalized data for a small fraction of randomly selected users through the programmatic arm of Google Ad Manager’s serving system, thus effectively
disabling access to cookies

This means the cookies for the auctions of a control group of users were not exposed. The experiment is still wrong, the bidders will still react in real time discarding the traffic without identifiers; specially since it comes from ADX where the identifier is the key to evaluating the model.

Not taking any other ad exchange into account is a huge flaw if you want to extrapolate the conclusions into conclusions for the whole industry. Other exchanges provide different identifying properties such as the 4th octet of the ip_address with each auction. Google ADX doesn't send this bit of information, they obfuscate the ip_address always. It's obvious that if you remove cookies from ADX, there is no reason to use ADX since the cookie is the proxy for your model on that exchange, but on the other ad exchanges you could survive just fine.

There is no way I read this experiment in which it makes sense as a conclusion for the whole ad industry.
Thanks for letting us know about the issue. Was your document in a different encoding rather than UTF-8? We will find it out and fix it shortly.
Thanks for the comment -- I think (although I honestly don't know for certain) that the goal is for the names to convey something about what the service does. In particular, so that in the context of the catalog the general purposes of the various services are at least _somewhat_ obvious.

The docs are always a work in progress -- anything you can recall trying to do with GCP that was particularly inscrutable (can't fix everything in one go, but one fix at a time is better than nothing :)
Now would be a great time to donate to the Internet Archive if you're able to. They can surely use the help.
Wow, I had no idea LambdaMOO was capable of that. I knew that MUSH/MOO like systems were rich but not to that extent. It was essentially proto-Minecraft in a sense?
There's a small probability it'll stop doing that ;)
Version 8.10.1 of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler has been released
I don't think they intend to make any convenient routes for these digital dollars back to untraceable cash.

After all, they'll be debit-card accessible to buy food or supplies; why would you need cash unless you're going to buy drugs or something?

They're talking about using these digital dollars instead of checks, for the unbanked and those without addresses at which they could receive a check, et c.
It might keep some people from starving.
Thanks for the feedback here -- as I mentioned in another comment I'm generally fond of our UIs, and it's nice to know that I'm not _entirely_ crazy.
Fantastic! Thank you for linking this.
The Ruby implementation (Asciidoctor) is a separate implementation by a different team. I recommend to use it together with Antora (Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx).
> anyone writing a UI in 2020 to have a damn good reason to not use react and redux.

Avoiding JavaScript is all the reason anyone needs. UI =\= website
Edit: I mistook the child comment of my comment as one from steveklabnik. Sorry, was not sarcastically calling you a Rust core developer :-). He really is one, see his profile.
"As things now stand, the U.S. government lacks the infrastructure to disperse payments widely, and given the nature of the current crisis, speedy action is critical."

I call bullshit. Back when there was a small budget surplus, Bush sent us all a check in the mail. That was almost 20 years ago. This stinks of pushing an agenda.
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I think I actually became better when I stopped spending time messing around with tools and environments and focused on just the programming part.

Sane defaults, know the tool and how to use it, but don’t waste time on configuration. When possible choose the standard tool for the job (IntelliJ for me).

It’s still fun to yak shave, mess with things, play with the terminal etc. but at least for me I found that the time spent doing that was the opposite of productive.
Managing game servers at scale and being cost efficient is actually difficult.
> Banking should be a utility, not a for profit business

100% agree. Just consider the overhead of the massive government policy infrastructure required to adequately support all of the banks which exist purely to turn a profit off of people through oftentimes usurious methods. There's no reason the federal government can't simply provide a bank run not-for-profit.

However, the Fed is not the federal government, it is a private corporation; so this is not the correct entity. Instead, the national bank you're suggesting would necessarily have replace the Fed with a fully transparent public institution.

You'll find that most times in history when a Western country tries to do this, the moneyed elites do not enjoy it.
Oh they knew, they just didn't want to mention that he straight up drank the aquarium cleaner and instead said "the chemical he ingested is also used in aquarium cleaners."

I usually have little patience for people who have no idea what the hell they're talking about, but I've been trying to give the benefit of the doubt since a lot of these people are probably extremely panicked and genuinely trying to help. Some people though... need an ass-kicking.
The thing is they bail out institutions and corporations and the people who fucked up did not necessarily get punished., while people who get hurt are not compensated.

There is a huge incentive to take risk on others' behalf and profit on one's own, then brag that one is a risk taker and an alpha male. You can see this behavior pretty much everywhere.
I don't know anything about your factory. But if you mean, can they do it from the perspective of IP/proprietary data etc., then that's the bottleneck to solve. The DPA could easily cut through that bottleneck if existing factories could quickly be retooled to manufacture existing, proven & approved designs. The alternative is to retool to produce novel, unproven, unapproved designs. If you have a factory, great! You'll need to retool it though. Which design would you rather target? A simple, proven, approved design tailor made for this sort of situation? Or the simple, tailor made, but unproven new ones that are being thrown together in a few weeks?
What capabilities does it have?
Not just surveillance, it would be much easier for the government to restrict where you can spend your money, place a time limit / expiration on when the money can be spent, and inject cash into the economy much more quickly (no overhead) than they can now.

All of these are nightmarish.
In what way is this even close?

What are the three targets in this case? It simply isn’t relevant at all.
> while some other markdown features do.

The only two markdown features afaik that work on HN are italics with asterisks and code blocks with 4 spaces.

That's it.
The vast majority of people don't know how to handle contaminated items correctly, and default to how they normally do things. You can't see contamination like that, so it's difficult to control your subconcious behaviours.

Touching the outside of their mask (more likely to have any virus droplets), then touch their face/eyes/etc.

Lifting the mask with their contaminated hands to scratch their nose or mouth. Touching the mask and transferring contaminants from your hands onto the inside of the mask, or from the outside of the mask onto your hands then to the inside of the mask.

Taking off/disposing of the contaminated masks improperly.

Using a mask beyond when it's safe to do so - most masks are not supposed to be used if they become moist, as they can retransmit and help spread droplets.
Congrats on launching! I am a big fan of ScreenHero and sorely miss it in Slack.

Question: I am looking to build a remote development environment and would love to license this to see if possible to develop on a cloud machine to avoid issues with rdp/nomachine etc. Any interest in that idea? Congrats again and looking forward to trying it out!
Every iOS app I ever built for a client had Facebook's SDK and tracking installed, at the client's request. Often Google's and Twitter's too and the user has no awareness of this.
Little Snitch might be the penultimate use case for Apple. If they’re using all the features and are a small highly competent team, they’re probably much easier to work with and can iterate much faster than a huge company the size of VMWare etc.
Replace the Fed with a public entity that provides this service.
In Praise of the Diagonal Reference Line
> Obviously I'm not asking people to panic, in fact, the opposite. Calm, reasonable and responsible actions do not preclude worry and having a healthy amount of fear for you and your loved ones.

Out of the 4 links, I skimmed the YouTube video, read the citations, and both of your links. Neither of your links refer to permanent effects after recovery. The only thing in the citations they're referencing to back up their claim is a one-line exerpt from the WHO report:

'Quote: “Lung tissue also displayed cellular and fibromyxoid exudation,desquamation of pneumocytes and pulmonary oedema.”' This appears to describe the actual condition of people with the disease as they have the disease, not after.

They they go on to cite a study about the much more dangerous SARS-COV-1.

As I said, nothing so far indicates that we will see permanent lung damage, certainly not in the vast majority of cases. It may happen, it may not, but it remains too soon to know for sure.

> On a more personal note: "fearmongering" is preferred over loss of life here.

As you may have noticed people tend not to react well in panic/fear situations, saturate very quickly and become very much irrational. It isn't always true IMO that fearmongering should be the go-to in difficult times when we have to make life or death decisions with limited data.
Lets be honest. This was the first thing I though of as a use case for blockchains ;)
The errors are so bad that it trains me to never write more than a few lines at a time without compiling/running it.

The runtime errors can be comically bad, bucking you into a screen of assembly for the simplest of mistakes.
The story I saw saying this was referring to traces of the virus's RNA, not active virus particles. More like footprints
How much can be run independently vs what the company provides? Are there parts that are private? Or is it more of a service and hosting model?
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I agree with most of what you're saying, but think the Fed is the ideal route for such a role if we presume that at some point in the future, they will acquire an outsized amount of financial assets similar to what central banks in other developed countries facing stagflation have done (Bank of Japan); it then becomes trivial to issue a citizen's dividend from those assets to citizen accounts. I'd settle for a national government-operated bank if I had to.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22594458 for logistics.
Thanks for letting us know you think it's cool. :)

The GUI library is QT. But not ordinary Qt, we did lots of customization. A large amount of time invested in polishing it.
if you're on a Mac, you can use alt-0 for a degrees symbol too
In California EBT recipients can cash their Cash aid at certain ATMs.
OK, now we're fucked[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
Facebook in talks to acquire stake in top Indian telco Reliance Jio
I hear you. I feel like the entire VC culture right now is built on bullshit. You simply cannot be honest about deadlines or realities with these people. It's a terrible culture and I think it's symptomatic of a greater sickness in America. We desperately need to return to a time where people with merit were recognized and respected. The way money is awarded
now really seems like it's optimizing for buzzwords and bullshit.
Well isn't everything "at scale" difficult?

I just don't see what makes this special, dedicated servers don't require GPUs, just a good amount of cpu and a moderate amount of network bandwidth. This just feels more like branding existing things because games are "cool".

I left that industry a few years back so maybe things have changed but I'm not seeing it.
See this attitude is why I'm long on cryptocurrency.
Asciidoc(tor) is far easier to learn, read and write than RST (I have extensive experience with both). Our developers love it. We use it together with Antora, Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx.
I'm on a Mac with 32 GB of Ram.

According to Activity Monitor, right now:

• 4.26 GB are being used by apps

• 19.52 GB are cached files

• 8.22 GB are just sitting idle (!)

Now, I'm not running anything particularly intensive at the moment, and I make a point of avoiding Electron apps. I also rebooted just a few hours ago for an unrelated reason.

But the fact is that I've monitored this before—I very rarely manage to use all my RAM. The OS mostly just uses it to cache files, which I suppose is as good a use as any.
How do you allocate a 1% buffer of time? The GC issue in games (or any other timing sensitive application) is about the "world freezing", not memory. Which is why incremental GC is a thing. At best, you're borrowing time.
It's a poor example.

Ballistic vests and helmets don't collect gunfire that can be transferred to you if you take them off incorrectly, or if you scratch an itch under the vest with a hand that hasn't been decontaminated.
Awesome work! What is civilpedia?
Fantastic. While lots of folks have read "Dulce et delcorum..." at least once, but Owen has a worthwhile body of work that deserves modern remembrance. Huge loss he died so young.
Gates' money doesn't disbar him from expressing common decency.

No one's going to starve. The water and power will continue to flow. The factories and trucks are not destroyed. The topsoil isn't blowing away (Dust Bowl reference that.)

So really the only damage is people and paperwork. Let's save the people.
I don't know if the problem is easy.

I've moved twice since I last filed taxes. I put in a change of address but many folks might not have.

The aim of the Bush rebate was just to inject money into the economy. It didn't have to get to everyone but this does.
For us, Asciidoc(tor) is the answer. As easy to learn and use as Markdown, more powerful than RST. Best combined with Antora, Asciidoc's answer to Sphinx.
Yes, and the rest of abstract strongly indicates they're still in preliminary collaboration stages, bringing on subject matter experts to figure out the details. I'm not saying it's not worth evaluating, but it isn't going to solve the current bottleneck. Take a look at the link I provided. Their products are literally tailor made for these exact types of situations. Throw all the resources you can at helping them scale production. If necessary use the DPA to force them to open their designs to other manufacturers that can retool their factories to make even more. Sure, by all means have parallel efforts to evaluate designs that can be cheap & scaled even more effectively, but recognize that such solutions will solve the next crisis, not this one (unless we're still in this one a year from now, which, hell I hope not but it doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility.)
School was bad for you. An alternative would have been good. Sure. But was school bad for everyone?

If you never had a friend all the way through college, you are nowhere the majority.
It would wear me down. I need a bit of a chit chat and bullshitting with co-workers to get through my day.

I can only look at JIRA with so much self-motivation.
I won't disagree with any of that..but, for example, if I pay rent in cash, I will cash out the Fed account to pay rent. The Fed account is simply a mechanism for me to cash out. But yeah, someday the bills themsleves will have RFID-like strands, and monetary privacy lost.
Countries are starting to hoard food, threatening global trade
Do you have an example of a real-world package dependency situation that generates a truly difficult SAT instance?
That's actually U+00BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR. You want U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN, which is ⌥⇧8.
There's a reason the Fed is disjointed from the normal branches of government and does not answer to Congress or the President directly. You need that separation to keep the system from corrupting itself. If it were up to Congress, they'd print $100 trillion a year and spend until the system collapsed on itself. Some would argue we've already gotten to that point and we just have yet to see it play out in the economy. That may be true. There's a lot of very real systemic risk in the market right now. Financial mismanagement has destroyed many empires. America's system is vulnerable. Retail banking should be the last of the Fed's concerns at this time. It doesn't cost much, if anything, to open a checking account in the U.S. A lot of the unbanked either have illegal status and are keeping their funds off the books for good reason, or they choose to use cash for privacy reasons, which is totally valid.

If you want a non-profit bank, that's what credit unions are for. They've been around for decades.
> Why do you find it "very hard to believe", knowing nothing about his use cases, that his job doesn't involve exactly the sort of situations that consume vast amounts of RAM.

Probably the GGP said they experience lag while "doing simple things like reading an email." Now, maybe GGP meant to add "while I'm sequencing genes in the background", but since that was left out I can see how it would be confusing! :)
It could end up worse than nuclear war. Nuclear leads to quick mutually assured destruction. An escalating biological war (or a destabilization of our poorly understood living substrate) could make living on earth worse than nuclear death.

Shortsightedness. Look up that Einstein quote about WW4. He knew what he was talking about. Better than me, anyhow.
This is an argument against area denial doctrine, not an argument against chemical weapons as agents of area denial.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing it. I, too, have unintentionally recreated existing technologies (a unix util, pass, in my case).

I recently built something similar with node + bash scripts. Node basically just verifies the webhook, runs a bash script, on failure it rolls back and emails me.
All you have to do is look at prisons as a good example, standard currency is tightly controlled, typically not very available to inmates and somewhat pointless to inmates anyway. So alternative currencies are used. Drugs, cigarettes, food, weapons, personal hygiene stuff, people, the list goes on.

Currency is only as meaningful as its usefulness to people. If a large number of people can't or won't use a currrency, they'll just find another. It wouldn't be the first time in history a majority currency became too inconvenient for a large number of people and alternatives were found.
From the late 90s to the late aughts it’s unlikely anyone could have used a desktop for any work. 256MB of memory was a lot of memory not so long ago.

Looking at how a browser, an IDE, and a few compilation processes will gladly chew through 8GB of memory... it’s not necessarily horrible, but this is a modern contrivance.
You ask them. If they say no, then they can't pay rent.

"OMG everyone is going to totally take advantage of this!"

Not everyone, but yes, plenty of people and business will.

"OMG that's unfair."

Yes, I acknowledged that from the start. The whole point of my argument is that this might still be preferable to the alternative, it might still be better than sticking to what's 100% fair, because collectively we might emerge stronger from this crisis if struggling businesses are afforded leniency, while the rest of us keep paying our bills on time.

But thank you for perfectly illustrating my sidenote on how this way of thinking is completely alien to many Americans.
Federal Reserve Taps BlackRock to Purchase Bonds for the Government
Do you mean to say that you could interact with the virtual world and change things in the physical world? Like, drop an item in a virtual room to turn off a light in a real one?