skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was in the '90s, so pre-'98 C++, on a proprietary OS fielded by Siemens and Ericsson.

The stacks in use today optimize for accessibility by less skilled programmers, and (more) for heavy requirements on management participation and total head count. Productivity is a non-goal. A 250x programmer would be distinctly unwelcome almost everywhere, today, although there are still more places that want one than are available to hire. I spoke recently with someone who spent time at Walmart corporate, and got in deep, deep trouble for finishing in a week a project scheduled to take 12.

Dan Luu explains on his blog how little value his employers have placed on his contributions that earned or saved them hundreds or thousands of times his salary for the time he spent. Managers mostly value what improves their standing among other managers, not what benefits the company.

Doing what benefits society or the world gets you escorted out without severance pay.
The only people who need to consider the fairness of a transaction are the parties involved. With their consent to the contract, and the determination that no force was used, we can objectively consider the transaction to be fair. The inherently subjective nature you describe of extending judgement to the masses will never be as true a reflection of fairness as is the parties' own judgement.
Yes, you may have heard before but global warming is something to think long term about it
I think this is a great idea on the one hand...

...But it will equal-and-oppositely create a market, perhaps a black market, for anonymous voice calls on the other... Perhaps these would be delivered by an open source Voice-over-IP program which uses an anonymizing P2P network as its backbone...

Also... will it make any difference for phone calls that originate outside of our country?

Now, those small observations aside, I think that hard authentication of the source of phone calls, is a great idea to help combat scammers and robocalls... I'd use this service myself, and I know other people that would be immensely benefitted from it...
Good find! I don't think there is anything "authoritative" there, but the discussion seems high quality. My take is that a lot of smart people disagree on which parts of that example are implementation-defined, implementation-undefined(!), or undefined-behavior. Most (but not all) think that the initial assignment is implementation defined, but 'davislor' suggests in his answer that "the line void * ptr = (char * )0x01; is already potentially undefined behavior, on an implementation where (char* )0x01 or (void* )(char* )0x01 is a trap representation".

> What if it's not an "invalid pointer", but a pointer to a memory-mapped IO address, ROM, etc?

Yes, this is central to the question. And how is the compiler to know? Is it safe to presume that the compiler can't know, and thus can't presume undefined behavior? I think the answer is in the comments you linked where 'supercat' replies to 'Peter Cordes':

The Standard makes no attempt to mandate that all implementations be suitable for low-level systems programming, nor does it in any way imply that it's possible to have a quality implementation that is suitable for low-level or systems programming without it supporting behaviors beyond those mandated by the Standard (and which might not be processed predictably by implementations that aren't suitable for systems programming).

Which is to say, yes, for a compiler implementation to actually be useful for low-level programming, it must behave in a predictable manner when given literal addresses. Unfortunately, it may be possible for a C compiler to be "standards conforming" without actually being useful for this purpose. One can only hope that at least some compilers will continue to "do the right thing" despite that lack of explicit requirements.
Thank you! Gee, that's such a brilliant idea. I must try it.

If Chesterton's Mr McCabe (from On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity[0] in Heretics) had never existed, it would make little difference. It's just an excuse to say what he wants to say.

...criticism of the highest kind...treats the work of art simply as a starting-point for a new creation. It does not confine itself...to discovering the real intention of the artist and accepting that as final. And in this it is right, for the meaning of any beautiful created thing is, at least, as much in the soul of him who looks at it, as it was in his soul who wrought it. Nay, it is rather the beholder who lends to the beautiful thing its myriad meanings, and makes it marvellous for us, and sets it in some new relation to the age, so that it becomes a vital portion of our lives, and a symbol of what we pray for, or perhaps of what, having prayed for, we fear that we may receive. – Wilde, The Critic As Artist

[0] http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1301191h.html#ch16

Edit: I've 'borrowed' A Perfect Vacuum from archive.org, thanks! Also, I've hardly read any Borges, but that Borges fake review of a novel which is identical with Don Quixote but totally different is one of the funniest things I've read.

http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html
These are the same people who claim that anti-tobacco campaigns are bullshit and that tobacco is not nearly as bad as claimed.

News flash: they're wrong about that. They lost all of their credibility to me with one episode
Google was designed to prioritize popularity from the very beginning: that's what their original PageRank algorithm did. Their algorithm has no way of knowing a concept like "accurate". If almost all of the links on a given topic go to BlatantlyWrong.com, and when everyone clicks on the BlatantlyWrong.com link and not the AccurateButBoring.org result that is #2 on the page, the users will reinforce the wrong answer.
Which jurisdictions are you targeting first?
The strategic reserves are one time and not immense.
"Siri, play the Eagles on spotify"

Been available for a little bit now.

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-use-siri-to-control-...
Ahem.

"An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the commission is the United States' primary authority for communications law, regulation and technological innovation."

Source: https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/what-we-do

You can have arguments until forever about what they should or shouldn't do, but their raison d'être is to set policy according to these overarching objectives.

Oh, and just to be clear, the lack of an Oxford comma in that quote is inexcusable :)
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Time to double or triple the federal gas tax
Boosting your career prospects with a degree in commerce
raw oil is very toxic, better to leave it where it's already contained.

refined oil has a TTL or expiration date.
It sounds like Dark Sky might do this but I'm curious how often various weather services check for correctness. I've seen the Apple Weather app (which I know is based on a 3rd party) tell me it's sunny and clear when it's raining outside more than once.

I also have this fiction that locally run weather services do better than internationally run. My fiction is that weather.com doesn't care if the weather is wrong in Japan or China or Africa they only care it's correct at their offices because the people that work there unconsciously would only notice when it's wrong in their area.
Without offering an alternative for how to deal with an itching face this will not be well received, I guess.
They're a big oil producing state, right? So probably always have among the lowest gas prices?
No, PLA won't just rot. In industrial composting environments it will be completely gone. In cool dry environments it will last for a long long time.

They use PLA in dissolvable stitches (one of a few options) and those thin fibers are dissolved within a few days to a few months. It depends much on environment.
In my experience the breakage is with IPv6. Try forcing IPv4.

'ssh -4 <hostname>'
As a founder or VC you just made a lot of money. As a normal employee you just found out that 1) buyouts don’t make you rich, 2) that “success” can look exactly like failure because your product got cancelled, and in about four months, 3) that promises from your ex boss are unenforceable.

The major upside for most employees is that they just got acquihired into Apple and they get to put that on their resume. Not everyone is so fortunate.
> and they currently have a very large number of recovered patients

And note that the real number of recovered patients is certainly higher than reported in those dashboards, because while reporting infections and deaths is mandatory, some municipalities report recoveries, others don't, and on the whole, reporting recoveries is low priority, even for those who do report them.
It's a pretty low bar for the word 'break'. By the same token you could walk up to a bunch of people in a restaurant and start yelling at them while they're having dinner. That's also not a break. It's just a nuisance and proof that you're a jerk, and if you did it in person you'd likely end up with some dental work.
If I’m reading this right then the “loan originator” is both the recipient of the Capital AND the guarantor of the buyback if it goes south.

That’ll end well.

Looks like a brother system team that worked in construction and moved into lending:

https://www.revenue.land/grupeer-interview
It forces you to fight with the least conservative, and the banks pour on more and more credit to appropriate ever greater swathes of national surplus.

No doubt someone will say "you don't have to buy", but then you have to rent. Forever. Because they keep bailing out housing.
> and death is a lagging indicator,

If you think or raise so, then you're measuring wrong; and to me, it feels everybody is measuring death rates wrong.

Let me elaborate. Let's say you're a teacher and you do a "test-type" exam (the true/false ones whose score you can verify with a machine, real quick) to 100 students. If after 30minutes of ongoing examination, 10 students have finished already, and let's say you check how many have passed: 9. The way the world is measuring, as an analogy, is saying that the "fail rate" of the exam is 1%, while it's actually "10% so far". When you measure success/failure, you have to take in account only people that finished.

Therefore it's crucial to compare recovered vs death cases, and not take the "current cases" into account.

Still, if we correct the death rates numbers to use this method, it'll be not accurate, because there are many cases which are untested and therefore many recoveries that are not taken in account (although some deaths too).
Different point of view: I was a Founder and CEO during the dot com era. The company survived and became successful ($2B revenues today).

It may be unpopular, but I will give you a different view, the one from a Founder/CEO.

After the dot com crash no VC could figure out the good from the bad in their portfolio companies. I was starting to get conflicting opinions from my board (4 VC’s and me, the Founder). “Become a BtoB company, a BtoBtoC company,etc,...”.

Some VC’s offered a bridge (and declined at the last minute), others claimed they were running of money, others did not know.

A white knight came in the form of a bottom feeder. Those kinds of sharks are circling around your company right now. Vc’s are just happy to unload their portfolio companies to them, so they can save the face, some employees, and maybe the company.

Anyway, the deal came with a caveat: I had to fire 40% of the staff and I had to quit after that to make room for “professional management”.As a Founder I had hired every single engineer, every single marketing rep. This was a very difficult one to swallow, but I had no choice.

The night before I did not sleep. I was up at 5 and drove early to the office. I stopped multiple times as I was sobbing and could not drive (I wear glasses).

Mid morning I called an all hands meeting. Got up the steps to talk to everybody. There was silence, as everybody sort of knew by then that something was brewing.

As I was reading to talk, I started crying. Everybody was watching me in silence.

As I was getting myself together I explained the situation, that we had a way out but that 40% of them had to go. One engineer raised his hand and said “I’ll stay with no pay”.

Then a second one.

I started crying again. Folks would come to me and say “we’ll be all right” and I would reply “thank you”. When asked what the structure would be, I said I did not know. I knew that after the layoffs I would be silently asked to leave.

A lot of people moved on, did well, got better jobs over the years.

So, be kind to your Founders, and all the early employees who worked for months and years with no pay because they believe so much in what they were working on.

In the past 5-10 years, we have seen a lot of excesses, super expensive office spaces, unbelievable perks and salaries, $30K conference room tables and unlimited money printed by VC’s and later stage investors. Well, maybe this is it. If you get laid off don’t be angry, don’t blame others, and move on. Don’t take that personally.

As for me, I never fully recovered from the worst day of my life, and that was 19 years ago. :-(
It's amazing that Babylonians did this without any modern equipments. Recently I learned that 2500 years ago Persians (the Persian New Year was last week) predicted the Spring Equinox with a certainty of 5 minutes. This is crazy. Very impressive. Sad how the Middle East lost its technological and scientific edge over the centuries.
Apparently (as of 25/March) they weren't sure if they had money to refill it:

Given the current uncertainty related to adequate Congressional Appropriations for crude oil purchases associated with the March 19, 2020 solicitation, the Department is withdrawing the solicitation. Should funding become secure for the planned purchases, the Department will reissue the solicitation.

https://www.spr.doe.gov/doeec/2020-03_CrudeOilPurchase/Docs/...
The media should stop calling this death rate or corona deaths. These deaths are not (all) from the virus, rather occurred in people who died and had a positive test. These things can be (and I assume are) vastly different.

Just as a thought experiment: The same metric would give herpes a 100% death rate.
There will also be suicides related to this event as well, one example https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/german-mi...
This is not a bad idea. Cap the prices to $2.50/gallon and whatever the difference is should be all taxed.
This company Kinsa sells internet connected thermometers. Their "US Health Weather Map" (that I called a Fever Heatmap) shows areas with more fevers than normal. Under the map note the chart of fevers vs Date.

Normally (sans epidemic) these fevers are from flue and colds. On the chart, the blue line extending thru May is the number of fevers expected. The Orange line is the Observed number, and Red shows fevers exceeding the expected range.

This data is recorded by Kinsa's servers as their customers measure their temperature. As such it is 5-10 days (my estimate) ahead of the case numbers reported by doctors and hospitals. This is because people wait until they feel really sick before calling a doctor.

Therefore, these numbers are timely, but harder to interpret. Remember these are all fevers, not just SARS-COV2. Also this is most certainly NOT a random sampling of the population. The sample must be small, and skewed by income and age.

That said, what the chart shows is that in the USA, fevers exceeded the expected range about Mar 9, then fell back into the expected range about Mar 20, and are now below expected.

The conclusion drawn is that these Atypical Fevers represent people sick with Covid-19. And that Social distancing quickly reduced the spread of ALL viruses. Fevers dropped below expectation because isolation reduces the spread of influenza, rhinovirus, and coronavirus.

I have been plotting current cases and deaths for this epidemic all month, hoping to see a break in the exponential growth. That has not yet happened. But this cart is the first good news I've seen.

(Note: You must track Current Cases, not Cumulative Cases to see the real exponential growth. Recovered & dead patients do not spread the disease. So the graph of Cumulative Cases will fall below exponential growth early due to attrition, not effective isolation.)
Selection bias pushes men towards high-status, high-paying fields and women towards low-paying, pink collar fields. You do realize that if one sector disproportionately hires men, then there are a disproportionately high number of women in the remaining sectors, yes? The women that aren't hired for those tech roles don't just vanish into thin air - they still need a job, whether it's in tech not.

But beyond the statistical biases, the highly-gendered nature of tech prevents women from being seen as a "good cultural fit" by hiring managers. It discourages women from pursuing CS in school, and pushes women out of tech when then do manage to get a foothold. Whereas nursing actually encourages men to apply much more proactively because people don't get hilariously defensive in that field regarding rectifying the gender disparity. But I'm certain you have lengthy, sexist rebuttals prepared for how sexism isn't real, with analogous comparisons about on the job sexual harassment and diversity hiring.
I've never heard that raw oil is especially toxic. Are you sure you aren't thinking of used oil, which is?
I discovered Omni yesterday when League of Legends dumped 20 gB of text logs on my brother’s old MacBook, eating up all available disk space and crashing it. He asked me for help. I didn’t know what was taking up all his disk space so I searched for a tool to help me and found OmniDiskSweeper. Unlike the MacOS builtin tools that try to hide the underlying file system, OmniDiskSweeper actually helped me understand the contents of the file system and discover what was eating up all the storage.

If anyone who worked on that project is reading this, thank you.
found the missing words or concepts in a page that linked to the hit, just not within the hit itself.

Then why not just show that as the result.

That can actually be useful sometimes.

...hence why the related: operator exists, it's just not the behaviour that most people expect by default.
No, you don't want a full text search engine. If you think you do, you don't remember the pre-Google world. It was impossible to use the older search engines to find a reasonable explanation of a common topic, because to Alta Vista and other search engines of that era, every page that contained a given term was considered equal to every other page, and it would give you all of them in a random order. You could add lots of AND and OR to try to exclude what you didn't want, and this might cut you down to 40 or 50 pages to go through to maybe find what you want.

But when Google first came out, it was a shock. You could just search for something like "Linux", and the most authoritative sites all showed up on the first page.
Willpower: https://nationaleczema.org/mind-body-techniques-to-stop-scra...
Wait, wasn't this already done? Seriously! We are doing this now. Why has it taken so long!
Perhaps just because of the step where you bring the contaminated N95 into your home kitchen and handle it there, before it enters the oven? This sounds tricky to get right.
Dark Sky was not a public service, it was a private enterprise. If it weren’t for capitalism, Dark Sky wouldn’t have existed.
same.

known zoom for a while... the "it just works" and "it has better quality" comments are very surprising to me and got me skeptical. are skype, slack, gotomeeting, hangouts, meet, webex, &c. all really crashing on people now? in a huge conspiracy?

things i thought could be the real reason: novelty (for some/most people), popularity (someone online famous/influencer mentioned it), shadow marketing, luck.

but wikipedia told me is actually going on: schools have decided that zoom will be the de-facto remote schooling platform. a bunch of young people appropriated the platform it seems.

hope that helps. the superiority talk is just that. but now they are in a good position to become better than any other video conferencing software.
So… You're suggesting reducing the impact of potential error… By increasing the surface area of potential error…?!
Why is there an ad on HN?
This kind of dishonest dealing seems to be just absolutely everywhere. It is really depressing. How do you even fight it. It probably is all legal, but it is corrupt as hell and condemns everyone else to pay hugely for a small group’s gain. Maybe we can support 7bn people on this earth, but not this way.
Written form please. This saves time in many ways, such as searching for certain chunks of information when trying to form an early opinion on how this product fits one's need. I went through your dev documentation today and the organization is good. I wish you would present the more detailed booking example in the same conversational style as the shorter hello world example at start. When a developer sees the first page with the bullets of interesting features (service discovery, load balancing, etc), they would want to get a broader picture of the architectural approaches combining these features (through coding examples). Interesting work. Thanks for creating it.
If the media plotted a minute by minute uptodate map showing those deaths due to poverty, people's mindsets would change.

But the impact and knock on effects of this pandemic, will not exactly help poverty related deaths and without a doubt, exacerbate them.
I think if you look at the level of care in Germany that you get even in remote towns (corona virus aside), there is a lot to be said for the decentralised model.

A lot of states, not just the US have highly unequal public infrastructure. France being one of the bigger examples, but the UK too.

There's a very basic Hayekian argument about the problems of concentrating so much knowledge and capacity in the capital alone. It simply impedes flow of information, it creates distrust and simply put dysfunction.

People in the anglosphere don't just ask these questions about Germany when it comes to healthcare, they also often ask them when they see regions like the Rustbelt or North England and compare it to the German Mittelstand. In many ways the centralised model is broken.
I work in tech in a non-coding discipline. I was reading this article thinking, "Are there really that many people out there that you need to separate the good hires from the average hires?" Every time I've interviewed it is hard enough finding a single competent hire at all, never mind trying to grade hires to separate multiple seemingly good candidates.
As girvo mentioned, compile times are really fast. Might not be as fast if you're heavy user of metaprogramming but it's still really good.

For example see: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer in the README it mentions:

> Note: While Nim is compiled and does not offer an interactive REPL yet (like Jupyter), it allows much faster prototyping than C++ due to extremely fast compilation times. Arraymancer compiles in about 5 seconds on my dual-core MacBook.
The US strategic oil reserve is stored in "artificial caverns created in salt domes":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...
We were considering laying off but quickly decided on pay cuts due to (what currently seems like!) the temporary nature of this and knowing that the relief bill will come. Our projection is that the loan funds should arrive by the pay cycle after our upcoming one.

Like the article and the parent comment mentions, laying off is a very significant and irreversible decision and at least in our case seemed too extreme.