skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ruby has a pretty solid Api story on windows (meaning code and gems generally work) - but it's not quite a tier one platform - it's gotten better, but eg automatic compilation of c level extensions isn't quite as good as on Linux. This mostly stems from using msys and not vc++ - and is similar to the issues python used to face on windows. But if I'm not mistaken python moved to vc a while after community edition became a thing.

We're also running some rather old code (w old versions of ruby) - and that's obviously not great - but also somewhat worse on windows than on Linux.

All that might make it sounds like ruby on windows is tricky - but it really has gotten quite great, especially after 2.4.
""With mean writing incomes of only $20,300 a year prior to the crisis, authors, like others, are now struggling all the more — from cancelled book tours and loss of freelance work, income supplementing jobs, and speaking engagements," the Authors Guild, a professional group that provides legal assistance to writers, said in a statement released Friday."

Maybe if the Authors Guild spent more time pushing publishers to raise their rates rather than backing publishers....
I do agree that it is tough to figure out what the right thing is but I disagree with the survival argument. A lot of organizations (e.g. companies, non-profits, and unions) end up spending a good chunk of their resources to try keep things as they are and keep the organization alive - despite the right thing being in another direction. This ends up keeping these organizations alive for far longer than they should. The systems of incentives can also become perverted by these organizations.

Personally, I want to see more organizations devoted to solving problems and boldly becoming obsolete. The predominant reward models do not really seem to reward that.

(Recent semi-related anecdote: see recent nytimes article about what happened to the project devoted towards designing and stockpiling inexpensive ventilators that came into existence after doing a risk analysis around SARS.)
Why would you be angry? The letter was written when the PM first came into office, the political landscape would surely have considerably changed since then if it came to nuclear war. You'd have both more context and more freedom to act on what you think is right — I see no reason to be mad that you can't shift the choice to someone else.
If you believe the rumors, it sounds like they're moving to their own CPU designs. Maybe the Mac Pro would stay x86_64 though?
>Games are traditionally single threaded and hard to parallelize.

It is not that the Gamers and Prosumers dont know.

But they are willing to trade ~10% of Single Thread Performance for Double the Core at a similar or less price point.

Sounds like a very reasonable decision to me.
Out of respect for his privacy I'll reach out to him and ask.
By who can pay of course. It is the American way.
> When you work remote it's assumed you have flexible hours and when people need more or less of your time, they queue it up whenever it's good for them, your freetime and personal life can take the back burner.

This is true only insofar as you allow it to be. My coworkers make none of those assumptions about me or my time.
Yeah, I've been wanting to find a way to throw money at Omar/screenotate, though havent yet because I already purchased Prizmo (mac only) which has an okay-but-not-perfect screenshot ocr as sortof a side feature: https://creaceed.com/prizmo

Someone recently made dpScreenOCR ( https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/ ) on linux , haven't tried yet
Apple already has an office in downtown Seattle. I know because I've talked to a recruiter about a job there twice.
You mean the group's sentiment is "if you don't give us a rent break, we're going to take it anyway" (by striking, so there, take that)?
FWIW, loaded battery life is intrinsically linked to the thermal / cooling aspect of CPU performance discussed in the article. Mechanically, CPUs are just simple resisters converting stored battery energy into heat.

Idle battery power is also interesting, and even the older Zen 1 had pretty good reduction in power consumption at idle (C1).
When I built my first computer the conventional wisdom was that you wanted to use an AMD Athalon-64 processor and an NVidia graphics card. And there we are again.
I adore that people are taking this comment so seriously.
That wasn't really an open office. The usual open office is one open space for 50+ and sometimes hundreds of people. It's an awful place to work. There is usually a lot of distracting noise.

What you described is something like I worked in. We had separate rooms for most teams(15 people or less). You could collaborate with fellow team members, which usually relevant for the whole team, but wasn't distracted by other teams. As you said it's the perfect balance of collaboration and privacy.
This is a big pet peeve of mine. Just seems desperate when it's twist and turns to cancel and get 1 extra month. E.g gyms
> What is stopping any of you from actually building a movement to help homeless men, instead of complaining about the activists who try to help women in need of housing?

Maybe ^^ is afraid of misandry and people like you who get angry/offensive when someone wants to help men as though it's a competition about who has it worse.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_are_wonderful_effect
Tectonix Uses “Anonymized” Cell Phone Data to Track Spring Break Migration
Structure matters a lot. Look how intelligent crows are, in spite of having such small brains. Humans do all sorts of things Neanderthals never did, so maybe we have differently structured brains that allow us to do them.
In the end war just sucks and most of the young guys who have to fight would agree.
I understand how that could be frustrating, but as a user I find styled form elements pretty annoying.

I would love to have control for myself (i.e. be able to customize Chromium's built-in date picker that gets used everywhere), and limit (or prevent) sites from customizing it themselves. I feel like I have a better understanding of what's usable for myself than an arbitrary web dev.

But I also feel it's wishful thinking. Maybe Opera would have done something like that back in the day when they made their own browser, but I'm not hopeful it'll get into Chrome or Firefox any time soon.
I worry that the Internet Archive is playing with fire. There are other things it's doing that are clearly a public good, yet extremely dubious from a copyright law perspective:

- Their e-book library during normal times, with the one-borrower-at-a-time restriction (the one whose temporary removal is at issue here). Even with that restriction, "it seems like a stretch" from a legal perspective. [1]

- Their online emulators for old computer software and games. Copyright lasts for around a century, so those are all still copyrighted unless explicitly released by their authors. Some of them are orphan works, which might make a difference under EU law [2], but not under US law, and some of them aren't even that.

If someone sues the Internet Archive over the National Emergency Library, there's a good chance they could get a ruling that lending e-books without permission from the copyright holder is illegal regardless of restrictions, effectively forcing them to shut down the library completely.

The emulators probably wouldn't be directly affected by a lawsuit over the library, since there are different issues and different copyright holders involved, so I'm less concerned about them. Still, I fear that a lawsuit could lead to increased scrutiny and criticism of the Internet Archive in general, which could possibly lead to someone else suing over the emulators.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/internet-archive...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Works_Directive
Thanks to another bread discussion on HN, I'm a very happy user of Peter Reinhart's Whole Wheat breads and Bread Baker's Apprentice books.

He does something similar with the overnight soaker/poolish/biga recipes, which have been highly successful in improving my whole-wheat bread. Is this similar, or a different technique worth trying?

Thanks!
Nobody in the US wants to do these chinese jobs. I dont blame them
Is this an attempt at a test page for a product?
> Lean times are absolutely the worst time to issue new shares though. The downward trend could spiral out of control if that was put into practice.

Yeah, but that's kinda the point. If a company wants to buy high, sell low, that's their choice. But if they want to waste their cash buying high (and dodging taxes on dividends), they shouldn't expect to be able to successfully get easy money from the public when they need it.
ويديو مناجات دعای دل از حضرت عبدالبهاء با موسيقی و تلاوت بسيار زيبا
> I was confused by the "concepts" sections—there's little meters with red and green, but it doesn't really express what those meters mean nor how they've been evaluated for each concept.

It isn't explained, but if I'm not mistaken it looks like they put a green box in the meter for each different UI system that they've recorded for it.

E.g. on https://open-ui.org/components/switch, the "basic" switch has 5 green boxes in the meter: Ant Design, Atlaskit, Evergreen, Lightning Design System, Material Components Web. The next example, "autofocus" only has 1: Ant Design

So it appears they are ranking the features (basic, autofocus, default, large, etc. of each component by how much support each feature has across design kits.

I was confused too because using the green/red meter makes it seem like they're giving it a score or rating. A better alternative would to say: "We found 5 frameworks that support this feature"
Any Youtube instructors you'd recommend?
If it weren't for libraries, those publishers and authors would have a lot lower visibility and readership.

And, as Internet Archive points out in its rebuttal, published today [0], "On March 17, the American Library Association Executive Board took the extraordinary step to recommend that the nation’s libraries close.... In doing so, for the first time in history, the entirety of the nation’s print collection housed in libraries is now unavailable...."

Considering how the publishing industry has treated libraries that buy e-copies, labelling IA's action "a cynical play" is ironic. Maybe those publishers which can most afford it can double their payments to authors during this time.

The so-called 'Great Recession' managed to kill off most of the used bookstores I shopped in where I live. If this event killed off commercial bookstores, I'd shed no tears.

[0] https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-respond...
I wouldn't call it obscene; having a physical copy is a good backup. Maybe we could say we're allowing digital lending libraries to violate copyrights enough to distribute copies over the internet as long as they contribute to physical conservation as well.
Evidence suggests that's not the case, however. Consider the neutrinos, which also are observed to come in three generations. Cosmological evidence suggests that the sum of the three masses is ~1 eV. Detector experiments suggest that the lightest neutrino must be at least 0.05 eV.

Now suppose there's a fourth generation of neutrinos. Per the weak interaction, the Z boson can decay into a neutrino/antineutrino pair through the following diagram:

Z -> 2 v

(one of these neutrinos v would be an antiparticle). Therefore so long as the decay is kinematically permitted, ie m_Z > 2 m_v, we will eventually see the decay.

But just what is the mass of the Z? Well, experiment has its value pinned ~45 GeV -- at least 10^10 times larger than the heaviest of the three lightest neutrinos. If there is a fourth generation of quarks, then the mass the mass hierarchy must be something like*

v_1 : 0.00000000005 GeV
v_2 : 0.00000000010 GeV
v_3 : 0.00000000100 GeV
v_4 : 22.50000000000 GeV

And of course, v_4 could be larger! There's nothing physically preventing a fourth generation of quarks from being so massive (at least, that we know of), but to a particle physicist that would be a highly unintuitive discovery.

--

* The mass splittings for the quarks is known, but not their actual values. Don't quote me on these values -- they're just for illustration!
I've been making liberal use of the flag button for the trolling comments once I picked up on the pattern.
Existing vaccine efforts will probably succeed, but the possibility that they fail is real and quite scary (to me, anyway). So I'm glad we have a bunch of longer-term speculative projects as backup.
Covid-19:APC Chieftain, Adamu Garba Blast Buhari over Poor Handling Coronavirus
Found this visual analysis of "anonymized" cell phone data interesting. How is it truly anonymized if you can track the movement of the devices? Correlating data over an extended periods can help you identify the device owner just be seeing its daily movements (home locations, work locations, frequently visited places, etc.).

If anyone could explain how this isn't concerning I would love to hear more information on what is done with data like this to make sure it's truly close to anonymous. Would like to hear the other perspective.
Interesting, can you cure my ignorance on why they don't claim to include 5.5.13 kernel in the main download page? I'm not super familiar with how distros are packaged up for consumers

Is the main download page the rough equivalent to `master`, and your link is like the feature branch for merging the latest kernel version into the distro?
Option 2 makes quite a bit of sense but only if your opponent doesn't think you've necessarily selected it.
IIRC, the logo you see outside buildings is a random color from a set of 5 or so. They match the Apple logo colors they use on the employee badges, which are also assigned randomly.
If you compare to ruby, there are a couple of quite nice packages for os automation that allows for scripting setup of services etc. That's a space where os level support is essential.

That said, crystal being new, and wsl 1/2 being a thing... I'm à little surprised for the demand for a windows version.

OTOH being able to create a gui rad ide like Lazarus or Delphi, that is cross-platform, compiles to native executables and uses crystal in place of Pascal would probably be great.
Also games are hardly limited by CPU at all a 10% loss in single threaded won't be noticed at all but more cores will make a huge difference for other tasks.
The letters have to instruct the commander to retaliate in order for nuclear deterrance to work - or at least your adversary has to believe that that is what the letters say. Otherwise your deterrance loses it's power.

Yet if commanders get to the point of actually reading the letters, then deterrance has obviously failed.

That's what makes these letters so interesting IMO.
People know where satellites are anyway - you can literally see them in the sky. You can't hide them!
I just switched from self hosted hugo to netlify + docsy yesterday, pretty great and happy so far. All I do now is make git pushes to master (before I tagged, but ran my own CI/K8S)

https://docs.hofstadter.io if you want to see what it looks like
Fiber boxes (and cable boxes) here are all at least twelve feet above ground level up on a pole. You never 'walk around them' unless you are levitating.
I wished they used my app ScreenTime (https://tryscreentime.com) for some of their work.
Why use a laptop if your work appears to befit a desktop? A lot more power and RAM expansion for less cash.

> small thermal signature

When I were a lad, we used to call that 'warm' :)
I like being able to write safe and GC-free code by default. Rust would be even better if it was possible to opt into GC, but I would still want to to be GC-free by default. It's good that the entire library ecosystem has grown up GC-free and that should continue.
Thumbtack lays off 250 due to Covid-19
This is probably the most heartwarming comment I've read on the web in ages!
Back-of-the-envelope estimates of next quarter’s unemployment rate
I'm not surprised if you're right about that, but I would love to see some authoritative sources about specifically which DIY projects would be most effective.

I read some of your links from above, and I agree it's good to be skeptical. I'm basically waiting for hospitals to start announcing that DIY ventilators are the right move, but by the time that happens, it may be too late to start sourcing materials and get things built in time to make a difference.
The challenge with those is hiring. State unis without great programs have a hard time hiring the top folks needed to make great programs. Also, top universities will just hire away the best professors from state universities after the profs become successful.

I think the rich folks are more interested in making Institutes- the Allen Institute and CZI being two examples. Institutes which are not affiliated with a university have a lot of advantages to the folks they hire- tend to be in popular locations, with higher salaries, more resources for crazy ideas, less overhead on grants (just a guess, I don't really know for sure), and NO TEACHING REQUIREMENTS (many top research profs hate teaching because it eats so much time).
Germany plans Covid-19 'immunity certificates'
I have never heard of or expected this from my "binary choice components".

It's fairly standard in 'traditional' desktop UI where actions are supposed to be initiated by regular buttons and things like radio buttons and checkboxes are for setting the options of the action. "Radio buttons never initiate an action" says the classic MacOS HIG, for instance.
We can help with the automation of data extraction from all those regional websites into a single google sheet and save volunteers’ time.

I’d be happy to donate scraping capacity to this project. If this is relevant ping me at omar@ domain from my profile.
Dropbox does, essentially, fuzzing of Rust async code and it is determistic.

I couldn't find a post about it, sadly, but I know the information is out there somewhere.
I wish more authors would self publish. I know this isn’t about academic authors specifically, but the fact that we still rely on libraries and journals for access to that makes no sense to me: I don’t understand why you couldn’t get all the benefits of peer review, publicity, access, money, and prestige simply by getting the right endorsements or having your article linked to in some sort of compilation site (a journal with links rather than the articles themselves), and just have people pay you a small fee directly for access (supplemented by donations and organizations that compile papers). The same thing should apply to non academic authors as well.

The internet was built specifically for this problem, and that 402 payment required status code was introduced way back in http 1.1 -> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402

There’s something deeply ironic about the fact that we can distribute and run fully featured modern applications on the web, but the academic papers it was originally designed for always seem to be in pdfs locked down behind paywalls. I can run powerful physics engines in the browser, but I can rarely click a link in an academic document.
One would hope that there's a notice to that effect, when users attempt to access their works.
This gives me an idea for a startup...

Build full clones of sites like meetup.com which appear to be overstaffed, but which are more-or-less functionally complete. Also handle customer service, billing, fraud/spam detection, etc.

You then lease the clone sites to the actual companies. CaaS: Clones as a Service.

The company can then cut costs by laying off like 80% of its workforce.
The trick is convincing people that earlier prints should be somehow worth more.
Not seeing much in the way of accessibility here.
yikes, those dead trees mean zero backup or conservation as opposed to distributed storage off of the web. this is a lame miscarriage of a copyright law that is outdated.
>Most people have a very different idea of "general purpose operating systems". It includes Linux.

A popular misconception is still a misconception.

>all the buggy code has been shoved into parts that don't count for the security audit.

I hate to repeat myself, but as explained above, at least the microkernel multiserver design has a chance of being secure, because it doesn't run more code than needed in supervisor mode, and isolates components individually.

A monolith cannot, because it has an excessively large trusted computer base, which makes cost of proof impractical.

>Microkernels have huge problems. Reality disagrees with Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

I refer you to the last installment of the Linus-AST debate[0].

>killing performance.

I recommend this article[1].

>Well, I guess nothing qualifies then, because you can't have a WCET on commodity hardware. You'd have to have a CPU without any kind of cache (branch history, TLB, etc.) and without any kind of instruction scheduling. You couldn't even have two cores sharing a bus, either on chip or on the motherboard.

seL4 has WCET for x86. It simply assumes the worst case for all of this. And it's still a good WCET. I recommend you read the paper[2].

[0]: http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~clausen/PVSE2006/linus-rebuttal.h...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200216184858/https://blog.dark...

[2]: https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9242/15/papers/Blackham_SCRH_...
Not really. If you pay a person six-figures for (hopefully) multiple years as a developer, spending $1K one-time for a decent chair (that also can be reused if that person leaves) and how much? let's be really generous, $50 per week on beer? - which would be less than 1% of the cost of the salary by the most generous calculation - doesn't seem like something you should cut corners on. And I don't think anybody spends nearly close to $50 per week per person on beer. These things are pocket change compared to salary costs. Cutting costs on them is like buying a Mazerati but asking that the windshield cleaning liquid would be of the cheapest brand because you're cutting costs.
cheap and disposable like the N95 masks? Does anyone manufacture these bags and tubes in your country at scale?