skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the GP's

> I call this, Developer Inertia:

should read

> I call this "Developer Inertia":
I'd imagine that'll happen the first time. When there's as much going on as in WW1 though with them having no idea where to go to avoid artillery, with potentially less competition for food, established nests and fewer people around in no man's land than elsewhere, I can well imagine over time they'd get relatively used to it.
There is a coffee shop down the street that couldn’t pay their rent a couple years ago, way before coronavirus. They started a gofundme to bail themselves out and promoted it on the hyperlocal blog. The nouveau riche giddily bailed them out. Landlords here seem to know, consciously or not, someone with money to burn will pay the price.

I’m personally aware of several small businesses that are simply burning capital from family or friends to stay alive. Almost all of it goes to rent.
Higher base clock might mean you can overclock it higher. Of course, most people don't overclock their CPUs, even if they are unlocked.
Houseparty app offers $1m reward to unmask entity behind hacking smear campaign
My personal observation (and view of course) is that most people simply cannot code. And I am not talking about that reverse-a-binary-tree or traverse-a-linked-list type of coding, but more profoundly they just cannot wrap their head around a problem and are able to create a sufficient solution with respect to the context of the code and its environment at the same time. Good software development is strongly connected with ones ability to think clearly about any given problem and the ability to logically deconstruct it in smaller, more digestible thoughts. If there's confusion in the mind, there probably will be confusion in the code as well.

Also, it just seems as if many are unable to step back and look at the broader side of things when coding. Asking questions like: Are we using the right concepts here? Did we develop sufficient abstractions?
Case in point: I was just refactoring a code base for a client where the code was paved with a `MemoryHolder` type, where simply `Buffer` would have been the better name for the same concept.
I think it might be a result of the massive propaganda against communism during the cold war, but the efficiency of central planning is too often overlooked in such comments. Of course it's not a silver bullet, but it doesn't produce inferior outcome by design.

Remember: most big coorp (think Walmart) are actually centrally-planned mini state and yet, their profitability is excellent compared to smaller actors.
Also the [1][2] "Shaka sign" which is pretty well understood and casual.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign
[2] https://emojipedia.org/call-me-hand/
Thank you! For the record, Replicache uses Noms internally, so I think ... something ... will still become of Noms. We're just not sure how to move forward with it at this point.

And I personally find Noms incredibly satisfying mental model to work with, so I hope that eventually some others will too.
I don’t believe that lying is ever the least bad option. Truth is good. A good understanding allows people to make rational decisions. But now the population falsely believes that masks don’t help. And if the reason for that is “we were lied to in order to prevent us from buying masks”, then I think that is a terrible reason.
I built a gaming PC this last week, and also went with Ryzen.

Although I have to say - the last gaming PC I made was about ~13 years ago and this made me hesitant to move to AMD. During the time I was 'gaming' (mid 2000s to mid 2010s) all the hype was intel..
Then why will it only take 3 months and 2 companies to make 40,000 when a normal hospital has 5.

How can people possibly defend any system that is going to let, in their words, hundreds of thousands of people die, when x% of them could have been saved if money had been spent on equipment instead of buybacks and admin salaries.
Startup time can be made more or less instant with AOT-compilation of Clojure which is out of the scope of the example — it's purpose is to show packaging capabilities.
How does this work for build artifacts generated by a docker image? I looked at it awhile back but it didn't fit my use cases.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 - "Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus. ... Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.""
Currently, scientific research is not efficient enough to deserve more funding. The pyramidal scheme, currently collapsing, is just extracting as much money as possible with as little innovation as possible.

If there were thousands of small research labs taking tiny amounts of money, it would be worth it purely for the massive amount of trial and error, but currently, the system is just collapsing.
The new Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions
You are amazing. Thank you so much for the work you do.
What are some examples of Phi spirals (assuming you mean golden spirals?) outside of biology? We see them all over the natural world but off the top of my head I can't think of any non-biological examples. A quick read of Wikipedia points to logarithmic spirals occurring occasionally (although not specifically golden spirals).

(Also if we're just accepting geometric shapes, I'd nominate ellipses as being far more common, since they show up all the time in orbital mechanics.)
'a' and 'i' are perfect for indexes or range traversals. Yes, myVar is bad.

You can always read the context and see 'for value in list_of_values' or understand what's it that you're working with right now.

Yes, be more explicit on the tricky parts, but sometimes i = i+1 is just fine.
Wow, this really emphasizes that the rationale for choosing “Ok” rather than “Do It” for buttons was correct.

:-/
Wonder what would happened if they made an experiment to run one product line completely public - public code repo's, chats, emails, meetings, etc.
"spreading congestion" is not the best marketing pitch.
True! Although we are planning to run a big part of our infrastructure on k8s as well. This includes microservices for getting map information for our games, and automated game generation. For now it was just the Wordpress.
This looks nice and promising for multi core apps. But, 85Mb for a demo app? It sounds heavy and might end up like intelliJ IDEs I think.
How about compiling to binaries with Graal native? Can it be done?
ZOOMing In
Corporate Socialism: US Government Bailing Out Investors and Managers (Not You)
Zoom and Privacy
Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad deal. I mean, disregarding the current situation (covid), I'm pretty sure that Apple can argue from a guaranteed number of sales pov.
You're not going to see Zen 3 until Q4 earliest
Lack of screenshare on macos/ios is big one. It would be so nice to help parents to setup certain things.

Weird enough Apple support has that access tho. Just let me them know your Apple Id and pop-up appears...
Maybe the only way employees got pics is from one of the leak sites? :D
Yes! I didn't get around to installing it. This is mostly because of the documentation, media and videos being relatively intimidating and looking like a bigger undertaking then I would need for my use case.

RedHat is very eager for you to use their software, which is cool, but they also seem to focus on really big enterprise with training videos and courses. I was looking more for a project that just has some markdown documents with an example I can run within a few minutes.

Did you use OKD? And what is your experience, I'm curious to hear from another developer what it's like! I could try it again later, because it sure looked exciting!
Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing
There are already good solutions to this issue. In particular, simply placing the app package in a zip file, then checking to see if it's installed correctly when opened.
It’s been fascinating watching Satya turn Microsoft into a cloud services company over the last few year and this is another great example again turning an enterprise experience into a consumer one.
Coronavirus: US Death Rates vs. China, Italy and South Korea
You only need a few people not to follow the protocols and the result is disproportionately large spread. One problem with masks, apart from there not being enough of them in the world right now, is that some people think they're some kind of force-field that makes them totally immune and so they take less precautions. Really they're just an extra modifier to the risk, as shown by the number of medical staff getting ill despite all their protocols.

Also the minute one of your key staff come under a high risk category, gets sick, is isolated, etc... then you need to involve remote work anyway.
Just because a kernel is using something internally doesn't mean it is exposing it to user space applications.
Yes, it can be done: JavaFX developers created a library that deals with various pitfalls of compiling it to GraalVM: https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate

I think using jpackage is easier to start with since there are less cutting-edge moving parts involved, and it imposes fewer restrictions on the runtime.
Overview of H1B Visa Program – A Lifeline of Technology Companies
I’m not fluent enough in legalese, apparently. Is that $750-30k per infringer or $750-30k per copy? For a website, that’s a huge difference as every visitor initiates a new copying event. (As opposed to something like a printing press where you can strike off 10k copies in a single go).
I thought they announced no new Chrome major releases planned for quite a while?
Did you see the frightened ones?
Most passenger airplanes also takes cargo containers (of a size specific to a group of plane types) below the passengers. Not that many of course, compared to a cargo plane. E.g. even a A321 takes 10 LD3-45 containers.

Depending on the density of what's being transported the lower volume might or might not matter. E.g. the a321, according to Wikipedia, has a max payload 25t (I assume with reduced range). That's not that hard to fill with 10 containers of 3.7m3 each.

I'd assume that one significant reason the flights are that cheap is that they have contractual cargo obligations requiring them to fly some flights anyway. A handful of additional passengers won't reduce the payload capacity meaningfully, but will still bring in more than the increased fuel/service costs.
This is really cool.

I just wished they had moved Scoped Labels to Free too.

And I would love that the SAST framework goes to Free too and kept have the security scanners Premium. That would allow to have basic code coverage directly in Free, without the complex static analyzers, which would be reserved for premium...
the parent of your comment is referring to the phrase “urban air mobility market”, which the X-57 PR video demonstrates as being small aircraft, a few of which were VTOL craft -- not the X57 itself.

The PR video was basically hinting at the X57 being a technology demonstrator which will showcase techs (like electric propulsion) that the so-called “urban air mobility market” can then take off running with.
I’m a huge sucker for anything with spaceships in it.

From that very base perspective, it’s actually quite good.

It entertained me, and I looked forward to each episode.
Houseparty offers $1m reward for proof of sabotage
The show is hard to defend, in particular if you cherish Star Trek of the past. It's the typical modern/Kurtzman Trek on steroids. The Story is a carbon copy of other things (exploding Moon/Star from Star Trek 6; Android arc, admonition etc from Mass Effect) and frankly doesn't make any sense at the end. Romulans have always been an immensely advanced and powerful race in the canon, yet here they are portrayed helpless. And it's hard to swallow the thinly veiled politics forced down your throat in the first episodes.

The relationships between the characters have apparently not been understood by the writers. Do you know the difference between TNG-Picard and movie-picard? TNG-Picard is not there. The first reaction from Riker when reunited is "oh you're in trouble again" - the writers have not seen a single episode of TNG. The relationship between Data and Picard is comically misrepresented although I can see the need for that if they make the Data arc so central. Same for the entire character of 7o9 who had quite a nuanced development during Voyager thanks to the brilliant Jeri Ryan was wasted as a gunslinger.

The new characters are a mixed bag. Some of them are good actors and do have worthwhile moments (Jirati, Vash & Siblings), some are undefined and one-dimensional (Narissa, Commodore Oh) and some are cringe-inducing and have no place in a Star Trek universe (Raffi "JL JL JL", Rios). The best new characters Laris and Zhaban are unfortunately only in the first three episodes.

A lot of things from the past are thrown around as fan-service. We have a borg arc that goes nowhere, an antique Romulan warbird that simply appears to pew pew and than is never heard of again. We have Picard Maneuver/Stargazer reference, not to forget Hugh, Icheb etc. And the story itself is a backdrop at best. In the finale we have a magic Deus Ex repair device that saves the day. And a grand speech about Data wanting to die because only permanent death makes life worth what it is - and a minute later the writers magically resurrect Picard from the dead. I don't think they see the irony. Also the show has a peculiar affinity for made up words and using them excessively. And everyone really loves motion controls now. And starfleet admirals say "fuck" a lot now.

It does have some redeeming qualities though: Seeing the old cast again is nice, at least Riker and Troi are portrayed somewhat believable. I enjoyed the show until the middle but if you're not overly bothered by the things above or don't know any Star Trek maybe it fares better for you.
Wow, litetree looks amazing!

Unfortunately it looks like merging is still under development, and encryption doesn't appear to supported either. Definitely one for me to watch though.
Hackers Hijack Video Conferences of Online Classes
> how do we scale scientific productivity in a way that benefits humanity directly and in the short term

This is actually pretty straight forward and if you read my comment history, the clues are in there. If you have $500M+ you'd like to spend on curing cancer, feel free to reply with a means of contacting you and be prepared to provide proof you're good for the funding.
I wonder if graalvm can be applied to the output of proton native which allows you to use ClojureScript to compile react code into QT but still in the context of JavaScript if graalvm can get a native binary out of that it'd be cool

https://gist.github.com/polymeris/0112389243890709108c4b8b0a...
https://github.com/roman01la/proton-native-cljs
When working as a part of a group on a complicated problem, it is valuable to throw in information of which you only have say 70% confidence, provided you qualify it with an explicit statement of such confidence ("I think", "maybe"). This is especially relevant in problems involving people/teams in large organizations - there it's often hard to know much for sure and planning becomes an exercise in probabilities and speculation.
start small stay small is great.
Contested Divorce in VA
Those changes have been in the pipeline for a while, courtesy of Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge team. They've been in Edge for quite some time already, so Chrome only has to ship them as well.
Firefox for android and ublock origin. If you got amoled, add dark reader perhaps too if you like.
Interesting analysis, but what it doesn't really address is scale. The population of the USA is 5x that of Italy, and 6x that of Spain or South Korea. I think the analysis of the shapes of the graphs can be instructive, but not necessarily the numbers themselves. The US is in many ways more like a continent than a country.
direct link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/houseparty/status/1244827034406121472
For those who enjoyed Good Omens try Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20177950/chapters/47807593
The intention of the author's OS is to use cooperation in kernel space and preemption in user space so your entire comment makes absolutely no sense.
If you used your microscope slide as a mask to do photolithography on silicon, you'd use an optical reducer, right? So the feature size on the silicon could be ~5x smaller?
What makes you think the government is more efficient at distributing money than Sam, Bill and Mark?
The parallel case with async functions should be a long running computation that does not contain any yield point, so that it cannot be suspended easily. I remember that it is possible to construct (contrived) examples of this also in Erlang.
I don't get why AMD used 3000 naming for desktop Zen 2 CPUs and 4000 for mobile CPUs.

It is a bit misleading. When I researched some laptops and saw trhey had Ryzen 7 3700U I wronly presumed they are using Zen 2 CPUs, but I've found out that 3000 series mobile CPUs are using Zen+.
Installing Oracle Apex 19.1
I'd have to quote XKCD 927 here: https://xkcd.com/927/
You’re going to spend about 200 dollars on groceries and complain about an extra 5?

Come on now.
How to get MORE WORK DONE within a week: 5 Ideas That Work
Thank you for the extremely informative answer! It was very helpful.

Another question, if you allow me:

Will you provide preemptive scheduling primitives? Or will they be possible through the more low-level interface you described?

IMO preemptive scheduling is something that's very necessary nowadays, especially with the explosion of CPU core count.
Legal Systems Very Different from Ours, Because I Just Made Them Up
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macOS has great support for screen sharing: https://support.apple.com/guide/messages/screen-sharing-icht...
I don't know, the company I work for(in the EU) you get an email on your first day saying that the company has a private certificate installed on every machine, so they are intercepting and inspecting all of your network traffic including encrypted websites. So while allowed, please refrain from browsing your own email, bank accounts etc, as the company software can and will see the contents of those.

Like, it's pretty explicit. I don't know how different that is from just sending an email saying "hey your screen is being monitored every 30 seconds".
Binance is set to acquire CoinMarketCap
Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks
Exactly. https://www.techspot.com/review/1899-ryzen-3800x-vs-3700x-di... explains more details:

> The top 20% of all 3800X processors tested passed their 4.3 GHz AVX2 stress test, whereas the top 21% of all 3700X processors were only stable at 4.15 GHz. Also, all 3800X processors passed the test at 4.2 GHz, while 3700X processors were only good at 4.05 GHz, meaning the 3800X has about 150 MHz more headroom when it comes to overclocking.

That's a minimal difference of course, but right at the clock wall of Ryzen, so AMD has to do binning here to enable the 3800X.
Anti-Vaxxers, Anti-Hand Sanitisers, Anti-Masks and Anti-Variolation are all in the same boat.

This needs Gamification, Germany is doing this, bringing in certificates.

These people can get the country running again and go to the movies and restaurants.

I was going to infect myself but couldn't, then learned about load, so kinda glad I didn't jump in too early. I would have go hard to be infected since I figured it'd be quicker. Another reason to make it formal.
I'm wrong about not being able to think of a single law that applies here? How can you be wrong in that sense?
There are lots of people, who would need a desktop from their computing needs, but need to be mobile. This are the typical customers of MB Pros and other high end laptops. My work place falls under this category. So everyone has laptops. Which is a blessing in these times, as everyone just packed their laptop and continued to work from home.

Even in the times before the pandemic, it was very convenient to not be tied to your office just because of your computer. So a laptop brings a lot of value over a desktop machine. And with chips like the Ryzen 4000, there are more and more jobs which can be done on laptops.
The United Nations issues an open brief to designers to help fight coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reApQlk5JiA Mike Stoklasa Really Likes Star Trek

Bonus RLM compilations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZX2KpCoKFE Jay Bauman the film buff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rh1k2R2rv8 Rich Evans mispronouncing words
Who mentioned US law?
And how much different is books from movies being streamed on Netflix ???.

It is time for the publishing industry and novelists to get with the times and adopt a new model.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Teaches Scientific Thinking and Communication
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The original goal of the Internet's design was a network that can survive even the nuclear war, and that is why TCP/IP has multiple routing and redundancy. Why is the modern Internet so easy for authoritarian governments to control and partition? Knowing China's main motivation, I don't trust any of their so called innovation.
Unsigned disk images.
As far as I understand the scheduler and userspace processes are going to be completely orthogonal features to this. In general would it be complex[1] in this case to integrate both preemptive and cooperative multitasking?

[1] as in: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
Making a Git Forge Decision
The DMCA exemption process is specifically for the DMCA's anticircumvention clause, basically a ban on circumventing DRM. Actual copyright infringement is a separate offense (and in fact largely orthogonal), and the exemptions don't apply to it.
Family Goes Missing; Four Years Later, Their Remains Are Found
The US and China are about the same area. China has 4x the population
I agree. And he'll be very easy to recognize when he tries to create another sockpuppet account to troll with after he's banned, so we'll just flag that one too when we recognize him trying again.
For CPU, that is. Trying to make it work on my GPU took me to driver hell -- OpenCL support seems to be an entirely separate driver from normal graphics, and the newest packages that might support my GPU (Intel) are not even available for Ubuntu, let alone Mint.
> But I can do things faster using MVC on server, ES6 + jQuery on front end, VS having to use something like Angular.

That boils down to which technologies you are familiar with.

> It also looks and feels better.

And this is highly subjective too. Of course looks are very independent from system to system but the feels depend on the tech stack quite a bit.
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Zinc works better than UV light, and has fewer side effects.
Quote:

1:15 - 1:25 (approx):

"Search engines on the Internet are the epitome of confirmation bias -- and you're going to use that as evidence that you're correct?"

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

(Truer words were never spoken...<g>)
I don't see why the base block would be the factor for that. The Ryzen cpus overclock on its own, it should be the turbo clock and PBO that shows how well they overclock. I just linked in another comment to an article that explains that while the 3800X does overclock better, it's a minimal difference, right in line with their turbo clock specs.
Setting intentions in the evening for the next day can really set a productive mood.