skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess a better question would why is it better at those things? A lot of languages claim to be all about performance, scalability, productivity and portability. Those are pretty much what every mainstream language aims for. So why would this be better at those things? Why was it created and what does it do that others can't?

I don't think things necessarily need a reason to exist, but I think asking those questions is still relevant when it comes to a programming language. They are mostly tools used to solve problems, after all.
> Water is virtually incompressible even at that depth, so that weighs 1,400,000 kg.

Even if it was compressible, it would still weigh the same.
I don't understand why people are wearing masks at all. Dont they only protect you from inhaling someone's cough or sneeze? How often do people get coughed on?

Frequent hand washing and sterilization makes more sense to me. The cough droplets are on surfaces we touch. You aren't going to inhale them.
> Hughes' pretty printer works really well for pretty-printing Haskell code, but Wadler's is more flexible for pretty-printing C-style languages where there is a dedented closing brace at the end of scopes.

That's very interesting! So far I've only used Wadler-Leijen-style prettyprinters.

Are Hughes-style pretty printers "better" in some way for Haskell-like documents? If so, why?
I noticed today that the mic was "muted" on zoom. I chimed in on the video call I was on and the window flashed a reminder that I was "muted".

So clearly the mic itself is not muted - the software is still listening.

Not sure how I felt about that given all the recent Zoom privacy revelations.
This.

Most things are operated in an honor system.

Take npm as another example, in a large corporation, any commercial product that relies on third-party npm packages will have to survive a long legal audit process.
It's good that they removed it, but it's also dissapointing that they had no idea that it was happening until someone made a blog post about it. Do their employees not vet any of the code they use, and just slap things together off the internet and hope it's not doing anything their users don't like?
There is a line between caution and paranoia, and you are on the wrong side of it.

What's the reasoning behind this? How does exFat support in Linux give Microsoft leverage? I don't see how this isn;t just rehashing of the same old chestnut.
If activist investors are so effective in demanding change, why don't more of them push for more changes in chaebols like Samsung? Seems like the more simplification there are, the more efficiency can be gained and the greater the stockholder return.
AirBnb forces you to agree permanently to automatic withdrawals If you ever book using PayPal. Yesterday I noticed they had randomly withdrawn over $500 from my PayPal account over the past two weeks. I haven’t booked a stay with AirBnb for months, and their support refuses to acknowledge that it happened and doesn’t answer any questions. How convenient that this “mistake” happened just as they are running out of money. I wonder how many other people have experienced this “mistake” from AirBnb recently.
You are right if I'm out of a job cheaper housing is even more important!
I guess this is another under-recognized benefit of developing for the web - when doing so, you're staring at the Network tab all day, trying to grok what's going on over the wire and to whom. I don't remember doing this nearly as much on native.
Then the Government needs to not bail them out.
What would be the WiFi equivalent of this? Think a scenario where a road warrior is in need of connecting his or her devices to a public network. It seems my simple OpenVPN setup on each individual device isn’t enough.
FWIW Google Hangouts/Meet does the same thing. It’s actually a pretty useful feature... as long as you trust the company implementing it, I guess.
I sympathize with the grandparaent comment. The first three aren't exactly unique. Many languages are parallel and portable and productive.

Listing adjectives isn't a "why". A "why" would be: "Chapel is a language built for distributed memory systems. Unlike X or Y, Chapel has first class language concepts for distributed memory management, sharded storage…" etc. etc. (I just made that up.)

Then you know right off the bat whether this language is the one you need for the problem you have.

What you refer to as a silly meme might also be a legitimate critique that surfaces again and again when hackers/engineers build things that solve a problem they have, think it is cool or interesting, but aren't able to communicate the value to others.

It's not unreasonable to ask, at the very least, for a simple "why does this exist?" (An entirely reasonable answer to which might be, "because I thought it was cool!")
I also think it's a great book, but partly because it is technical.

Charles is great at explaining how computers actually work with circuit diagrams from the ground up in a way that's articulate, clear, and engaging. I think I learned more from this book than I did in my CS architecture class.

The historical context he puts it in helps with clarity since it's easier to understand when you know how each successive step built on the previous one.

In addition to the Dream Machine, I'd also mention Steven Levy's Hackers as an obvious one to read.

Some others I've read:

- What the dormouse said (this one was just okay, but interesting to see some of the cultural context at the time).

- Crypto (about the history of cryptography). I really liked this one, but people I've recommended it to found it dry.

- In the Plex (history of Google)

- Masters of Doom (John Carmack, John Romero and Id Software)

Related Fiction:

- Microserfs

- The Soul of a New Machine

- The Phoenix Project (fiction paired with the Dev Ops Handbook)
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The workers that would be picketing don’t work for the supermarkets. The people that own the supermarkets will tell the picketers to get lost.
I completely agree - I had (mis)interpreted what you previously wrote to mean throwing them out entirely. I just can't stress enough that despite all their issues, the FDA still plays an absolutely essential role in keeping our society functioning.
Yeah, my light's still on when I'm not sharing video and I hate it
The us is already running more then 100.00@ test a day which is great, and will help us on the downward side of the slope, but right now the focus needs to be on N95 masks and ventalators.
My neighbors on Nextdoor constantly complain about coyotes eating their cats. Yet they seem to resent my suggestions to keep cats inside.
Take Vitamin D,C and a Zinc Supplement. You will want to take Vitamin D with fat since it is fat soluble.

Don't over do it on the D, take the C every 4 hours since you body can only absorb so much every few hours and the rest is waste. The Zinc is important since it typically will help fight a virus.

Most of not all folks are deficient in the Vitamins and Minerals I listed.

Other than that eat a diet rich in nutrition and try to exercise.
Still no control group, though. Isn't the author of this study the same individual whose history of faking data was discussed on Twitter earlier today?

https://forbetterscience.com/2020/03/26/chloroquine-genius-d...

Yep, it's him. I'll wait for a reproduction from an independent group before believing this.

If I may say: be especially wary of people who tell you that what you want to believe is true. It's not necessarily that they're more likely to lie. It's that your guard is more likely to be down against mistakes in their reasoning. Doubt is the province of the wise.
> In the end, it's a crap shoot... Even their highest marker of validity is only about 50%.

Here's the thing though: all these different tests aren't completely independent. You can combine a couple of them and get a criterion validity value of up to .65.

See https://books.google.com/books?id=IvKYhrXAfRUC&pg=PA198&lpg=...
> Since when do the unit metrics on this business add up?

Never. Without VC money or gig workers who do not understand the costs of depreciation this model does not work for something as low margin as groceries.

At 10% margin, which is insane for groceries, you’d need a $100+ order to breaking even the cost of delivery. Forget actually making a profit. And real margins are closer to 2-3%.
I feel like this is a common video chat feature. Given that the option to mute while in the chat is likely done most frequently through their UI vs the system settings, this seems to be an appropriate use of monitoring input to ensure the user is able to avoid common problems.

There seem to be some legitimate concerns about privacy worth discussing further but I'm not sure this is one of them.
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I first thought you meant something different by "jwz". After seeing some of the photos from that "all-ages dancing" hellhole, my intuition seems right.
It's what the SYNOPSIS section is for, at the top of the man page, so you don't need to scroll down in the pager.

In a more general sense, though, this is why BSD systems generally try to avoid bloat in the core utilities. It's not about the code size - it never was - but rather the overhead on maintainers and users.
the fda doesn't regulate any of those drugs, that's the dea.
Sample bias. If you put shaving cream all over the gloves, and tell a person to remove them without coming to contact with the shaving cream, they usually do contact the shaving cream (which represents bacteria).

Most people will not intuitively remove gloves in a hygienic manner. While this can be solved with education, the gloves without the education is false protection.
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Doesn't the sex trade count as labor?

Also, it's generally parents who provide food for their kids.

And if they can't, governments ought to do so.

So "sex trade" ought never to be an option.

Edit: A boy in my wife's family died in ~1900, working as a breaker boy in eastern Pennsylvania.[0] Or at least, there's a note to that effect in her family Bible.

0) https://thebreakerboysbrianeicher.weebly.com/the-work-of-a-b...
FDA authorizes 15-minute coronavirus test
IBM's Early Computers and IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems. They are an incredible wealth of information for the research, design and implementations of early computers. Been aching to know about how the different transistors were developed, by whom and what their benefits and drawbacks were? It's all in these two.
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How S.F. has stayed ahead of coronavirus curve: slashing red tape, bureaucracy
I disagree; as far as I know the specific problems of global variables (over and above shared mutable state in general) are things that apply just as much to singletons. Things like absence of scoping, lack of clear ownership, and as you mentioned initialisation and shutdown, are just as much a problem for singleton objects as they are for non-object global variables.

Objects containing mutable state have some advantages over plain mutable variables (e.g. the object can enforce that particular invariants hold and invalid states are never made visible), but as far as I know those are just the generic advantages of OO encapsulation, and there's not really any specific advantage to encapsulating global variables in a singleton that doesn't equally apply to encapsulating a bunch of shared scoped variables into an object.
Is the profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? (2017)
I contacted LG last month regarding their use of the Facebook SDK's automatic event collection in their ThinQ Android app. They responded and told me that they're disabling it in an upcoming release (incidentally, today's). If a single email is all it took to get a company with over $50 billion in revenue to disable Facebook's tracking in one of their apps, I really don't think that these companies are sharing data intentionally.

What justification does Facebook have for keeping automatic event collection turned on by default in their SDKs? Why can't they enable it only when the the user has explicitly opted in (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/gdpr-complia...)? They even say, "you need to ensure that your SDK implementation meets these [GDPR] consent requirements."
Your mic is never “muted”. It’s just not actively capturing audio. If you want to mute it for real, unplug it.
Can you divide the land so that the actual area it was found is on a different property?
So, wearing a mask in public is not about avoiding getting sick. It is about not getting OTHERS sick. You may be an asymptomatic carrier and the mask filters your droplets out and keeps them from contaminating surfaces other people will touch. In many asian cultures this is considered common courtesy.
If you haven't read it, IBM's Early Computers is great.
Interesting. The LED on my 2019 MBP's camera goes off when I stop Zoom's video.
That's pretty hard core. I do rather think that, after decades doing Landmark. But there is this thing called compassion.
There's a graver mortal sin, no code samples on the front page. Python, Ruby, D, Go they all have this in common. I think Rust used to, and Racket used to have an awesome set of examples before they redid their site now I think it's different examples. Syntax tells me everything about the language.
Not an iOS developer either, but I think apps cannot make new bluetooth connections in background, which is a requirement for this app.
> A number of the owners in our building are absentee (probably not even in country) and they AirBnB. Nothing like paying a small fortune for a home and facilities and then having to share your pool with a bunch of obnoxious travelers who think they're in a fucking hotel.

In many jurisdictions it’s illegal to operate residential properties as hotels for these and other reasons.
We have been using Zoom four 4 years now. And it has simplified conferences enormously. Sometimes a few of our customers insist on using their own corporate mandated systems. Half of these times there is a struggle to get the meeting going for one reason or the other. We offer to set up a zoom call and, quite literally, the call is back on track within 2 minutes. Regardless of which country the user is in, the device being used, or any other parameter which somehow seems to trip up all the other systems regularly.

I have used Skype, webex, hangout meet, gotomeeting, various other entirely web based ones and none come close to the reliability that Zoom provides. No wonder it's getting adopted like crazy.

Kudos to them for handling this traffic with absolutely no visible hiccups.
As far as I understand, in other countries that provide, say mandatory maternity/paternity leave, there is a benefit provided by the government that covers at least part of that (not sure about sick leave). Otherwise you kill small businesses. Google can easily afford to cover someone's pay if they are out sick or on parental leave or whatever. A five person shop might not be able to afford to continue paying 20% of their workforce without the work getting done.

The harder you make it to start and run a small business, the fewer small businesses there are, which means everyone works for and is a customer of the same increasingly small pool of ever larger businesses. Which means that money and power continue to concentrate in the small group of people that run and own those businesses.

There are second and third order effects to things like "just make everyone offer paid sick time" that need to be considered.
There are at least two comments in here about special processes people use to validate Amazon purchases. This is because you cannot trust that what you are buying is new and because you cannot trust that it is the advertised size. If this is true, why not just buy computer equipment somewhere else?
I for one don’t think Zoom is being malicious here. I imagine plenty of other apps out there are doing the same right now, by naïvely making use of FBook’s SDK.
Is there anyone you worked with before who is now employed doing something you’d like to do? Have you tried asking them for a referral? Referrals from former coworkers are vastly more important than your resume.
>This is absolutely common. Business will require tracking/authentication/etc, contracts will be signed, developers will implement the provided SDK. Nobody will inspect the data being sent.

That's exactly the point. Zoom says they care deeply about privacy, but their actions demonstrate they don't. Doesn't matter how common it is, or the reasons why it happened, it's proof positive that their statement is untruthful.
You've missed my point.

Of course the telecom itself, for many purposes - not the least of which is billing - needs to know a personal identity behind a SIM card.

What I am saying is that individual cell sites - and other pieces of the cellular infrastructure - are only indirectly (or not at all) connected to personal identity of the mobile subscriber. Call routing can be done just fine without any idea of subscriber identity in meatspace.
My doctor friend who got the minutes of a call with a chinese doctor said they were also swabbing multiple areas of the body for PCR and doing an antibody screen as well (in addition to CT).
Actual press release by ABBOTT:

https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2020-03-27-Abbott-Launches-Mole...
The other way they'll stop is regulations
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what happens to the other threads? Are they killed?

Can a malicious process use this to avoid being killed
Code-first vs. schema-first development in GraphQL
> US revenue / GDP figures are also pretty large

They just got a lot smaller, and tax revenues with them.
Yeah. I don’t see anything here that couldn’t be done in Photoshop with a bit of masking work.

Here’s an example [1] of how bokeh really looks, using a high quality fast lens on a decent camera. We’ve got a long way to go.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Josefina...
It won’t be that easy because of two issues.

Demand is not going to bounce back. People will rightfully be apprehensive of increasing spending and will want to build up a personal cushion.

Tons of office workers who do little more than keep each other busy will be laid off and not find meaningful new work. This will cascade through their personal economies (spending patterns, defaulting on mortgages, etc).
I don't understand why there wasn't a control - placebo effect would matter here and 1/80 dead could just simply be an effect of these patients being more closely monitored in the study, it doesn't sound too far off from the 1.2% death rate you see cited in some publications. This just isn't a confidence inducing paper.
This is about audio, which, afaik, doesn't by itself trigger the light on Macs.
I’ve worked with Chapel a lot. It’s an insanely powerful language that will challenge your ideas (at least for me) about many language constructs in the spirit of HPC. I went to it around 2014 for doing distributed arm projects and implemented several projects. Here’s a simple search engine. My github had a number of chapel projects.

Once you get the hang of Chapel you will find it changes how you think about parallel computing. For more advanced concepts the learning curve is steep and not something you can get in a hello world example, but totally worth the effort.

https://github.com/briangu/chearch
Lest others also experience HN's hug-of-death of the original source, Google's cached version (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bkjo_-...) works as interim alternative version of the original PDF before the link returns or e.g. Wayback Machine has a chance to archive it.

(This aside, heed @asdfasgasdgasdg's very prudent note of caution; other independent and more reputable replications are essential.

As of this writing there are at least 19 such hydroxychloroquine trials in US (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=Hydroxychloroqui...) and more beyond (though WHO clinical trial site listing them is also apparently under critically-heavy load).)
None of what you're describing seems particularly hard except the actual ventilation (inspiratory and expiratory), and the detection of patient inhalation (which may need tuning). The rest is just normal programming of an LCD microcontroller.
Between this and the HTTP server, it feels like Zoom of old that wrote the app was more willing to make the user experience vs user privacy trade off in favor of user experience.

Now you need to log in via Facebook with a separate browser window, and thanks to the HTTP change, you need to click on a browser dialog to launch a meeting from a link. So, they've either changed their policy to err more towards the privacy side and haven't found all the cases yet, or, more likely, still have the same attitude except when the tech world starts screaming at them.
The lack of a control group is frustrating, but the comparison to outcomes in untreated groups documented in China still makes me feel this treatment holds promise:

"For all other patients in this cohort of 80 people, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin resulted in a clinical improvement that appeared significant when compared to the natural evolution in patients with a definite outcome, as described in the literature. In a cohort of 191 Chinese inpatients, of whom 95% received antibiotics and 21% received an association of lopinavir and ritonavir, the median duration of fever was 12 days and that of cough 19 days in survivors, with a 28% case-fatality rate (18). The favourable evolution of our patients under hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was associated with a relatively rapid decrease in viral RNA load as assessed by PCR, which was even more rapid when assessed by culture."
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In my experience as a business owner I was not eligible to collect unemployment insurance even though I had to pay into it. Worst of both worlds.
Sorry, you are really ignorant. I really don't want to discuss it with people who are rude and ignorant.
That is ridiculous that a company as big as Zoom wouldn't know what an API they're using is doing with their customer's data. Is there not a legal/privacy team at Zoom that is in charge of reading all the fine prints and license agreements??
Apple Moving to ARM Processors by 2021
In their defense, if you don't already have a pretty good idea of the "why?" from what is on their homepage, you're not going to be a Cray customer anytime soon and you're unlikely to find yourself working for one.

In your defense, maybe if they cared about mindshare and community beyond the people who give them money, enough people would have given them money that they wouldn't now be a subsidiary of HPE.
Wearing a mask is about not spreading your droplets around. While they do protect you to some degree they also protect other people from you. There is no way to know if you are an asymptomatic or presymptomatic carrier. Hand washing and sterilization are also useful tools but so are masks. Certainly we need to have them for our providers but having even a cotton bandanna on yourself is a courtesy to others. Anything to reduce your spread of droplets may help others.
Worst case, you can actually just call the IRS and they'll give it to you (after verifying who you are, of course).