skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you iterate to a FSM solution, from many nested conditions, or use it right from the start? I'm fighting the urge to write any FSM without having the absolute certainty that it is needed. There seems no other way than by refactoring to an FSM.
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What have you points to do with what OP said?

Homeoffice, flex time? That's all things that benefit the company just as much.

No relations to working only the hours they are getting paid for.

But that's the trick. You are presenting unrelated things as if they had to do more than agreed upon just to get those. Pretty cheap attempt to guild tripping.
They go red -> red+yellow -> green when making the red -> green transition.
I had a transparent cube desktop so I could see what was going on the other faces of the cube.

Being a master hacker during that time was fun.
Do you really believe that Apple doesn't allow macOS on PCs because of "unpredictability"? I think it's pretty obvious by now that bundling is a great way to differentiate their hardware, charge a premium, and lock users in their ecosystem. Remember the people who complained about issues with the butterfly keyboard, but kept buying Macbooks just because of macOS?
Gitlab (partially) acknowledged the issue:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555

but most of the conversation is missing:
"This comment is currently under review for potential violation of the GitLab Code of Conduct.
For more information, please reach out to conduct@gitlab.com."

so we'll never know what's the end story there. If someone knows I'm curious.

Though personally, I don't think China is more a danger than the US, or any local spying organisation of your choice.
From a fellow European : yes, in the US firing is much easier.

But hiring is much easier too.
As long as they treat the brains in vats with the same ethics as we treat human newborns, as soon as they believe there's any possibility it could be conscious, what's the problem?

(The problem of course is the possibility of it becoming conscious before we realize it, but it's very up in the air to what degree that's actually a risk. My intuition is that we'll see clear signs of it before it even fully forms.)
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>The only people who need to consider the fairness of a transaction are the parties involved

I disagree, and my disagreement is shared by contract and employment law in many places which places restrictions on what can be arranged through a contract. I'm skeptical that the only inputs that "need" considering is the mutual 'consent' of both parties.
I don't know about the other platforms, but I do know that on iOS if you have a non-trivial app you have to update it every year, otherwise things stop working.
That's work!
Man, who whacked off in your toolshed... so salty.
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What are you talking about? Ever since the first big Munich cohort, Germany has done extensive testing and scientists like Dr. Drosten have confirmed multiple times that we've been testing from a very early point on and are probably closer to the number of actual infections than many of our neighboring countries.

Mask shortage is a global problem and will remain so for some time since we'll have to limit making them available to where they are actually needed (hospitals, doctors, nursing homes).

All in all, I think Germany has dealt with SARS-CoV-2 in a responsible way, and the numbers so far seem to agree.
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The logical place to use this damage data is in a video encoder (since even the damaged areas of a video frame are probably similar to the previous frame, especially in the case of animations).

Are there any video encoder libraries which allow a damage map to be input, to save encoding time when only a small non-rectangular part of the frame has been changed?
It's a pleasure to use compared to Go. (Also, has generics).
Truly we needed this in these times of TP shortage.
There is a lot of uncertainty and confusion about covid-19. However nobody is suggesting it is spread or aggravated by a diet that involves meat.
Those are the magic words. F*ck SEO, add that and you'll get a couple million page views.
I came here to say the same thing. Why would you bother going to the trouble of designing a stealthy aircraft if you're going to plop a load of decidedly unstealthy motors on the top of it. Really bizarre decision.
Yeah, it came to surprise to us too. We are going to merge PhosphorJS into Theia repo and make it more configurable: https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia/issues/6501
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Thanks all, this thread is brigtening up my day.
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"I find it laughable that you talk about democracy, and then you praise "booting out of the government" elected politicians you don't like."

Using democratic power to remove democracy isn't the purpose that democratic power was intended to; the best analogy I could find is a son killing his mother.
And... yes, I praised his removal because it was extremely clear what he was going to do. He asked people full powers less than one year ago.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-11/beach-boy...

He is also friends with Orban and other not-so-nice presidents around the globe.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/31/coronavirus-...

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2020/03/30/coronavirus-salv...

I mentioned Hitler and Mussolini because what Salvini aims at doing is exactly the same: gaining control of the parliament through a mix of popular acclaim and underground extremist movements, then get full powers and kill any means of removing those powers. Fascism will return to Italy, it's just a matter of time. Incidentally, in 2022 it will be 100 years from the 1922 march on Rome, when Mussolini gained full power, so it might be a convenient (not so) casual coincidence.

https://www.britannica.com/event/March-on-Rome
You get a "Personal" meeting room, which keeps the same ID. You can then create other "named" meetings which gets a separate one. That then lets you have different passwords for different meetings.
What's wrong with the subscription model?

Vendors get recurring money and aren't incentivized to make sweeping changes to have major releases to get more money for the same product; consumers can manage cash flow by only paying while they need it, there is a lower barrier to purchase, and vendors have more predictable income.
Why would you fix errors on weekends? (except for critical stuff, and then take off a weekday instead, of course).

Errors are a normal thing for human work, especially software developer. Nothing you are "guilty of" and have to make right with your own money/time (same thing).
Shocking that outsourced IT can't secure customer data. In my own experience with outsourced IT (specifically outsourced to India) it was extremely worrying that the people managing an IT infrastructure had no idea about very basic IT and had to ask the same questions over and over.

I do not trust Accenture. Fuck them.
For starters, he's a significant contributor to the Rust community and ecosystem. As you can see, he shares knowledge and experiences, which is a rarety among the more experienced crowd. He actually wants to help others beyond "codeblazing".
Correct. The question stands.
Fans are behind the body when ground radars are located in the front and below.

You can tell from the wiglets and fans that this drone is not intended to be as stealthy as B-2 or drones without those features. For this type use it's probably enough to have optical stealth. In other words, avoid being detected by monostatic radars in specular reflection wavelengths. If the corners, surfaces and edges are not perpendicular to the incoming signal they don't send signal back to the radar.
That seems like a very extreme reaction to a group of nonviolent activists. Did an XR protest delay your commute or something?
I fully agree.

Silicon Valley-style startups act like cancer, and venture capital is the carcinogen.
A yoctosecond is 110^-24 seconds or there are 110^24 yoctoseconds in a second.

Of course, things will change in the future but I don’t see processors getting any faster than 5ish GHz without some breakthrough in technology? What applications/hardware might first be able to go beyond a septillionth of a second?
I'm not super familiar with Apple's policies but is this really such a grave sin on OS X? The purpose of the signature, as I understand it, is mostly to assure the user of the provenance of the code and, in a pinch, let Apple disable it. It's not intended as some bulletproof runtime security mechanism and it's easy to think of lots of apps that would be signed but could legitimately execute some form of unsigned code.
I am reasonably certain that it won't be long until ad-blocking becomes a whole different ballgame. Ublock will become an ever-updated trained model which real-time blocks ads. I have always wanted ad-blocking smart-glasses.
The browser soon won't be any different.
See Minority Report for an idea of where ads are headed (and then think about how to counter-act that, voila, that's how things will be)
Using words like "most" and "a lot" certainly signals that there is very little limit to the applicability of the theory.

But the commenter points out that most charity is in practice anonymous, which is a serious challenge to any framework that presupposes one's actions are publicly know by others.

It's like the creators of this theory only consider the charity of celebrities, which indeed do it mostly for signalling, and forgot the vast majority of humanity that doesn't get their actions described in the papers...
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Sorry, to hear it. Theia is an IDE platform and does not target end users but product builders. For end users, we build Gitpod based on Theia to support continious dev environments: https://dev.to/svenefftinge/continuous-dev-environments-the-... You can try to open Theia in Gitpod: https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia

Alternatively we provide community supported docker images: https://github.com/theia-ide/theia-apps
I'm a truck driver for a large trucking company. I go all over the US lower 48.

My day to day life is about the same, if somewhat busier.

I know that some essential workers in various other occupations have been given letters by their states or employers allowing them to be out of their homes. I think we're considered essential by default, and our truck or our CDL is probably permission enough. Anecdote of one.

We drivers have been told not to decline a load without talking to our driver manager, because toilet paper, cleaning supplies and food.

We drivers will receive a bonus each week if we maintain a fairly achievable number of weekly miles.

When at a company terminal we've been asked to conduct some office tasks remotely from our truck, although the terminals are still open to us.

More of our office contacts than usual are WFH, but those are usually phone contacts anyway.

Many shippers and receivers have changed procedures to minimize contact with us (which is good). Some have made no changes.

Car traffic is lighter in most places, so a little less stress, and fewer (but not zero) observations of Darwinian behavior.

The air is noticeably more clear in California.
> I am a little wary that there’s a climate connection being made which could also be explained by other things

It's not well explained by other things in all regions when taken comprehensively, that's the far larger issue. Your premise doesn't hold when you include the large number of other cities and areas that are seeing a similar pattern due to higher temps. Which is why multiple studies are reaching this conclusion.

Las Vegas should have an enormous number of cases, given its international traffic, or general traffic from within the US, along with its large casinos & large number of casino workers. It reacted slow to the virus, shutting the city and casinos down late. It should be a super spreader metro. Instead, it has two dozen deaths and a thousand cases, with no indication of a big surge happening as in NYC.

Check out Reno NV (425k population metro). It's practically barren of cases.

California and Texas should have dramatically larger numbers. California was hit earlier than NY was. Neither of those states were effectively approaching the virus like South Korea and Singapore did. That isn't down to lack of enough testing, the proof is in the lack of dead bodies and hospitalizations (which are both being reported; and we have enough testing now to know more definitely what's going on state by state).

Look at New Mexico's numbers: 315 cases (against 12,925 negative tests, an extreme +/- ratio), 24 hospitalized, 4 deaths. That's broadly what Mexico is seeing as well.

At a time when New York is seeing hundreds of daily deaths. Texas has 41 total and that's maybe rising by 5 to 7 daily.

Look at Virginia Beach. 65 cases, 1 death. The Virginia Beach metro has 1.7 million people. Look at Norfolk VA, similarly very low. Richmond Virginia, 1.2 million people in the metro with ~100 cases and only a few deaths. Now, assume these numbers are off by 5-10x, they're still low.

Virginia with 8.5 million people has had a total of 165 hospitalizations and 27 deaths (the latest figures from the state). It's seeing no great surge in cases. That's not due to a hyper effective program they put into place like South Korea. It has a climate that the virus likes less than states like Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Look at Raleigh North Carolina (1.21 million people in the metro). ~200 cases, zero deaths. Charlotte (2.5m people) is fairing a bit worse, with ... 420 cases and a few deaths. No surge is going on. North Carolina as a state has 1,500 cases, 157 hospitalizations, 8 deaths, with 10m people. Similar to Virginia in outcome.

Look at Augusta Georgia, metro population of 600k and Savannah Georgia, metro population of 400k. Very few cases or hospitalizations.

The Charleston South Carolina metro has 715,000 people. One death, 150-200 cases for the area.

The Atlanta metro has six million people. It has around a thousand cases (aggressively counting the wider area), two dozen deaths, and isn't seeing the NYC type surge.

Several of the major cities in Florida (eg Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando) are seeing very low per capita rates of infection, hospitalization and death.

And so on.
I'm amazed that this is even legal
Set the address to CA and the option to cancel pops up.
Are you sure it's not taken seriously by those who need need the solution? Do you have any way of knowing how many people have investigated/signed up as a result of your suggestion?
Presumably google are in an arms race with the spammers, like all search engines are.

Is there a superior alternative to Google?
Dang didn't know I wanted this. Would be real cool to get the SEGA startup from the Megadrive.
Rust will also support it one day, as part of the const generics feature. Partial support is there behind a feature flag.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...

#![feature(const_generics)]

#[derive(PartialEq, Eq)] // enums used as const generics must be Eq
enum Color { Green, Yellow, Red }

struct State<const COLOR: Color>;

impl State<{ Color::Green }> { fn next(self) -> State<{ Color::Yellow }> { State } }
impl std::fmt::Debug for State<{ Color::Green }> { fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result { f.write_str("green") } }

impl State<{ Color::Yellow }> { fn next(self) -> State<{ Color::Red }> { State } }
impl std::fmt::Debug for State<{ Color::Yellow }> { fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result { f.write_str("yellow") } }

impl State<{ Color::Red }> { fn next(self) -> State<{ Color::Green }> { State } }
impl std::fmt::Debug for State<{ Color::Red }> { fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result { f.write_str("red") } }

impl State<{ Color::Green }> { fn new() -> Self { State } }

fn main() {
let state = dbg!(State::<{ Color::Green }>::new());
let state = dbg!(state.next());
let state = dbg!(state.next());
let state = dbg!(state.next());
}

Output:

[src/main.rs:20] State::<{ Color::Green }>::new() = green
[src/main.rs:21] state.next() = yellow
[src/main.rs:22] state.next() = red
[src/main.rs:23] state.next() = green
Ordering quarantine is quite obviously not sociopathic to anyone who understands exponential growth and can do basic calculations.

> To argue that politicians caring about the economy - that thing that also keeps us alive - is "sociopathic", just shows a complete loss of perspective.

It's hard to see how someone who directly weighs deaths against economic benefits in such a situation (before the pandemic has even peaked) could not be a sociopath, and by "sociopath" I really mean the personality disorder, not some subjective sentiment. It's a hypothesis, but one that would be easy to confirm empirically with standard personality tests.

You have to bear in mind that politicians in those positions have good scientific advisors. They were attempting to delay measures in order for the economy of their country (or their personal stocks) to come out better in the end. They were willing to risk this gamble, even though they knew that this results in many more deaths, because no country's health care system can deal with so many patients at once. Except for Bolsonaro, all of these sociopaths have backed off by now, because most sociopaths are also narcissists and they realized the many deaths would make them look bad.

That's the sad truth, whether you like it or not. The good news is that there are less sociopathic heads of states than one might think and the vast majority of all decision makers have reacted wisely. Let's not forget that.
AccuWeather provides only data for the day before. That is not very historical.
I need to fetch data from years in the past to assign it to dated assets.
I've answered to these points in another comment. But I'll emphasize, that I know (and presume you know) within some minimum epistemic bound^, that we can suffer pain and that arises from our neurological systems. It can't be known what other systems/substrates could experience qualia, and even if they have the outward markers of consciousness, they could be 'zombies'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

^ i.e., not in some adversarial simulation etc.
For you who enjoying using state machines but wish they did even more and/or were embedded in each other (nested state machines!), check out this thing called State Charts!

Here is the initial paper from David Harel: STATECHARTS: A VISUAL FORMALISM FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS (1987) - https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/res...

Website with lots of info and resources: https://statecharts.github.io/

And finally a very well made JS library by David Khourshid
that gives you lots of power leveraging statecharts: https://github.com/davidkpiano

While we're at it, here are some links to previous submissions on HN regarding statecharts with lots of useful and interesting information/experiences:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483704

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15835005

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21867990

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606379

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093176

My own interest in Statecharts comes from wanting/trying to use them for UI development on the web, think there is lots of value to be had and time to be saved by using leveraging it.
> I wonder if the engineers at the time thought that programmers in the future will run into such issues.

Given that Unix was developed at Bell labs in the late 60's I'd say the thought of Unix being a thing in 2038 never would have occurred to them. Even in the 80's they petered out with Unix research stopping at v10 and developed plan 9, which still has a 2038 bug we need to work out.
The simple model that the other side presents where you get what you pay for and you only pay for what you need is easier to explain and thus easier to sell than the concept of forcing everyone to pay with the goal of ultimately reducing prices for everyone.
Embrace, extend, extingui$h
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Then why the lockdown if there is no outbreak and it is too hot for the virus to spread?
Often you don't need more than you have, and its nice to have fixed costs. An example - you buy Photoshop or Lightroom, and they cover 100% of your needs. As long as you can run it, you are happy with what they provide. Well apparently that didn't generate enough cash for Adobe but that's a long story.

Tons of businesses uses commercial software with little need of support in form of some patches. Usually toolsuites are mature and they don't try to hack every last bit of it.
> But hiring is much easier too.

Largely for that very reason, I believe. If it's hard to get rid of somebody, you will make extra extra extra sure that they are a very good fit.
It takes time to die of it. The true size of an untested outbreak would only be visible well after it's established.
Yep totally agree.

I was listening to a podcast that was breaking down one study that thought humidity + heat might be more of a barrier. But it was a really early test too.
I've been starting to get worse results for DDG in the last few months. What's with that? Why??? Talk about not knowing your audience.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Mazda, who started doing this a year ago in more mainstream models.
I raise that bid to $3.50
Yes. Can't share the whole repo (it's our internal product), but here are two files (FSM macro and FSM itself) you can explore. Let me know it that helps.

https://gist.github.com/juskrey/61148c98bdde871a8d3743f54b82...

https://gist.github.com/juskrey/127cf8456fc527d20ed5e244ce01...
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Why undersell yourself?
I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't notice people dying in the slums.
It could be why they don't officially recognize such a thing as a Flu Season or that most Indians have never heard of or had a flu shot.

Its quite possible they have flu related deaths thanks to incoming/ outgoing travel, but it's low/hidden amongst all the other respiratory related deaths they have every year.

If this pans out...India will be an interesting case study in our hyperconnected world of what happens when people react to a threat (on some other part of the network) at population scales and the threat fizzles.
> Why would someone use a hydroponic setup in a house

Clean and much lighter. This later point can be essential in old houses. Must be noted that It's not all laughs and fun with hydroponics. You need to find the correct point with watering (or automatize). Otherwise, hydroponic pots can turn on "cereal killers".
so, exactly the same as default zoom? not actually easier
I needed your coment to realize it. And I'm awake for 5 hours now!
I wonder how long we will drag these old codebases along. I always liked vernor vinge’s concept of a programmer archeologist thousands of years in the future having to build up arcane knowledge about millenia-old code to get things done.

Take the Traders' method of timekeeping. The frame corrections were incredibly complex - and down at the very bottom of it was a little program that ran a counter. Second by second, the Qeng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of Humankind's first computer operating systems.