skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Linux Kernel Implementation of Pipes and FIFOs (2011)" is a detailed look at the Linux Kernel internals of Pipes and FIFOs.

https://www.slideshare.net/divyekapoor/linux-kernel-implemen...

Long story short: pipes and FIFOs are implemented on a virtual pipeFS and an internal 64K buffer is used for holding data in memory when transferring between processes. Locks on VFS inodes on pipefs are used for synchronization across threads / processes.

(Full Disclosure: I'm the author; this work was done as part of my Master's degree and discusses Pipes and FIFOs as implemented on pipefs for a kernel around 2011).

Hope this is interesting to the people on the thread.
Bird lays off nearly a third of its staff during coronavirus pandemic
What's the difference to being a mercenary? People rent their body to fight an opponent, just not a human one.
> ecofascism

Oh, you're a "social ecologist" aren't you?

There is nothing fascist or right-leaning in the notion that human activity largely has a negative impact on the natural world.
I love this point—the more time you can spend selling the candidate the better. And I think the more effective your interview process, candidates take notice and probably need to be "sold" that much less.
Agreed the worst test would be 50% accurate
This article literally cites dolphins in the Venice canals as fake news. Please read the article before you comment.
The crypto market’s correlation with traditional markets
The only obvious explanation I can see is that they don't like the way it reflects on their image within their customer community.

I imagine it would be similar to unwittingly having someone set up a GoFundMe page for me as an individual. "Hey let's all help this guy out!" Sure, it's free money, but at some cost to my reputation with some people who would consider it a sign of weakness.
Phew, that's a relief
I'd think most.

I'm definitely not one of the more talented people here, but off the top of my head...

Python 3:

print('Hello, world!')

JS:

console.log('Hello, world!')

Bash:

echo 'Hello world!'

PHP:

Hello, world!

C:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
printf("Hello, world!");
}

On my phone, so I couldn't swear they're perfect. Been a decade since I wrote any C, particularly.

My point is just that Hello World is really easy.
Usually Acoustic Echo Cancellation but yes. When it's good you don't notice it (several commercial audio installation products do a great job at it) but when it's bad it's really bad. I'm not sure if Zoom even bothers.
> but it it looking like lease payments might be freezable pretty soon.

Is that in Canada or the US?

If the US, do you have a link to that info? I haven't seen any talks of lease/mortgage/rent freezes outside of Europe and LatAm.

Thank you.
If we ignore the regressive effects of (eventual) high energy prices (which are significant! a LOT of people are helped by low gas prices. Popular protest understandably occur when governments eliminate deep fuel subsidies)...

...then the long-term monopoly rents being much higher in terms of total revenue is actually good for the environment and maybe good for humanity in absence of something more rational like a carbon tax.

It can act like a Carbon Tax, but with the revenue going to Saudi Arabia or Russia (etc). In other words, non-ideal... But does maybe help electric cars in the very long-term (ignoring the near-term damage to existing electric car makers, and assuming we wouldn't be instituting a carbon tax anyway).

Much better would be a local carbon tax with revenues redistributed to counteract any regressive impact while also funding transition to alternatives.
I'm actually asking for details exactly like those you provided and I thank you for providing them.

Since I'm mostly clueless about lower level CPU details, I'm curious if the modern ARM Apple processors bring anything new and improved to the table.
Isn't this ruling inherently racist?
The mainstream media will carry water for anyone they compare to the Trump administration.
Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act
As someone with a fairly limited understanding of how these sterilizing UV rays work, I've wondered if it would be possible to install overhead UV lights that either came on at intervals or were on constantly to help sterilize surfaces in common areas that see high numbers of people. For example, inside of elevators.

Is something like that just not practical/possible or has it just not been seen as a priority prior to our current situation?
The Computer History Museum has lots of history on line https://computerhistory.org/
Yeh but having everyone financially at risk would crash the economy. Making everyone poor will just break everything and I really don't believe the government will help. The US government isn't built to function that way.
Side note, they absolutely manipulate their financial numbers. "No one believes China's numbers," my financial broker uncle in Hong Kong once said.

No one really cared that much because manipulation, risk, and uncertainty is baked into financial equations no matter what the country or government. Now that we're talking about lives, it's harder to dismiss.
Maybe, but the article needs to talk about that. That is my point. From my own view, I'm using both of those things and it does work, so why would I entertain a slough of new ideas to be started from scratch without seeing a compare and contrast discussion?
No, but you can thaw a couple stem cells, let them specialize toward immune cell lines, replicate to a couple tons and feed them Corona and protein/carb mix.
Love your site—thanks for sharing! And +1 with regards to the potential legal issues.
As an early morning runner in SF, I see coyotes in SF every week or two, including at Twin peaks as mentioned in the article. One morning in Golden Gate Park I warned a few people walkings dogs since there were about 4 coyotes around the corner.

From my first hand experience, I'd assume any wooded area with cover in SF has a coyote living there.
Do you have a source that young and healthy people are dying from COVID-19? Just curious.

The best I have is the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) which did a study on all 2003 dead (back when that was the number). Only 5 have been under the age of 40 and all of them had medical preconditions.

There are young and healthy people that show heavy symptoms and even need ventilation, but they all seem to survive.
Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and have a look at 50unattended-upgrades and 10periodic. My 10periodic looks like this:

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "7";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

And 50unattended-upgrades:

Unattended-Upgrade::DevRelease "false";
Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Kernel-Packages "true";
Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "false";
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-Time "02:00";

No more worrying about updates :)
I grew up in LA and while I don't live there anymore I've seen pictures from the last few days.

Never in my life have I seen such blue skies over LA. And my parents don't ever remember it being clearer either.

At least this shows what some stricter climate controls can do to both the climate and the economy and the tradeoffs involved.
It looks like the personal guarantee can be waived for loans under $200,000. This is good advice to keep in mind in any case-- I definitely would not take a loan unless I saw a clear way to become cash flow positive.
We are part of the natural world
Not in the context presented, no. The article isn't talking about their "initial actions", it's talking about their international assistance work. China is absolutely a global leader in providing humanitarian assistance to other nations struct by COVID-19. In fact they're pretty much the only nation doing anything like this, at all.

And historically, that was always one of the core roles played by America. So in perspective it's sort of notable, no?
How much money was involved in your case? Must've had some assets for them sue you, no?
I don't think any ecofacist exists outside of 4chan
The Dream Machine might be my favorite book of all time.
Hey, thanks for bringing up the question of whether certain topics are 'downvote magnets', 'hot button issues', etc. I'm fascinated by your observation that 'following a thread over several days is a near hopeless endeavor' - will you say more?
They referred him to another hospital. That's what I would call "turn him out on the street".

Likely, the boy had no idea how bad his condition was. Had he been examined by the physicians it would have been found out and he would have been rushed to a real hospital.
+1 on "The Soul of a New Machine": it's one of the most mentioned computer history books, and inspired the great "Halt and Catch Fire" TV series.
Seattle has occasionally gotten mountain lions and bears in the city.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/discovery-parks-co...
Meeting planner for multiple locations: https://www.worldtimeserver.com/meeting-planner.aspx
So what your saying is that the common corporate practice of lifting CEO's across sectors into companies they have no experience with directly is an recipe for disaster?

The government have exactly the same options to hire experienced people as any company in existence, so if the government cant replace bad manage neither can the private sector.

Once you have a bailout you have by definition incompetent owners and an/or management team that cant do their job properly, bankruptcy forces that to become clear by forcing the incumbent owners to face losses, bailout on the other hand keeps the rot in place.
Looks great, would love to play with your technology for other data sources!
Is that unusual where you are?

Over the past few years I've seen the odd pheasant within ten minutes walk of the centre of Basingstoke as well as the occasional deer sprinting across the ring road dual carriageway.

Hopefully we all get to see more wildlife as life quietens down a little and, at least in the UK, we can be sure not to encounter anything even remotely dangerous.
I disagree. Infecting yourself can have a high likelihood of causing others to be infected, depending on the pathogen, and risks costing many thousands in medical expenses that will be borne by society at large.

Edit: Society at large bears the cost when healthcare is nationalized. If you get your insurance through your employer, those thousands are paid by your employer and co-workers.
Open Source Ventilator using Arduino
I'm tired of these generalizations, I'm tired of anger towards vague ideas. Of course misogyny exists in pockets and is bad. But it doesn't exist alone. Give specific and constructive examples of misogyny, what we can do about it, and let's work on them. Everyone knows that all types of injustice exist. Saying some form of hate exists is not a novel idea, nor is it helpful.
> The moderators here humor and even encourage it

Heavens no. We react the way we do to minimize off-topic title complaints. Otherwise they take over and make things even worse.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
My key takeaway after reading this article is that I cannot blindly trust China's official figures.

NPR reports that "under its newest COVID-19 prevention guidelines, China does not include in its overall daily count for total and for new cases those who retest positive after being released from medical care. China also does not include asymptomatic cases in case counts" (emphasis mine).

One of the Wuhan doctors interviewed for this article told NPR that "I have no idea why the authorities choose not to count asymptomatic cases in the official case count. I am baffled."

All doctors and individuals in China who were interviewed for the article "requested anonymity when speaking with NPR because those who have challenged the government's handling of the outbreak have been detained."

--

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/27/china-re-closes...
That is a great read! And now the circle is complete and he can be his own hero and Jaws has him:
https://time.com/5811257/boris-johnson-coronavirus-positive/
So you need to design you assessment process to reflect the real world scenarios the hire will encounter. It's surprising to me to hear so many developers push back on this notion that you can't design a predictive hiring process. If you were hiring a dentist, wouldn't a great way to assess them be having them fill a cavity? Or asking a chef to make you your restaurant's signature recipe? It seems very logical and the key here is that the work sample is reflective of what they'll encounter on the job.
I think assholes that want to make money at any cost are everywhere, in every city in every country in the world. Let’s not be naive. Maybe California gives birth to a higher number of big companies that are also famous and so is more visible.
Coronavirus is melting Down Silicon Valley Twitter
WHAT!?

Never, ever would I have thought I'd see the day that I can stop maintaining that old Windows laptop which is the only device (I did try VMs) capable of still running Sonic Stage.

And all in the browser! This is fascinating! Thank you!
This is true and remains true, but if it ever changes and the UX becomes un-under-designed, I don't see any reason we can't proceed. Keep an eye on Matrix as they're undergoing a UX revamp and the people working on it are super thoughtful.
Free up space in Linux. Commands/Strategies to remove unneeded files
Riots in Hubei
> We (the US) are currently in a state were suppression is the only prudent tool

How do you know that this is the current state?

> As SK has shown, contact tracing & testing help a lot once you're not completely inundated by cases (and actually have a meaningful supply of equipment)

"meaningful supply of equipment" means this option is not possible in the US?
What we should be doing is any time OPEC does this kind of price war, we expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. "Keep it in the ground" while also building an increasingly secure rainy day energy stockpile.
> The moderation ... has a tendency to privilege toxic opinions stated in measured tones against the pushback they create.

I have noticed this as well.

Furthermore, the moderators definitely have a personal libertarian bent that regularly seeps into selective moderation. I routinely see someone declare an interesting political assertion and then any replies to it that disagree with the principle are shut down as being political, but the parent post is ignored.

Personally I inherently disagree that a forum can really be kept apolitical. Politics is the art of things that matter, the only things that are entirely apolitical are irrelevant and uncontroversial. As soon as you bring money, power, or status into the picture in any respect, someone will turn it into a political issue. I am not saying turn this into a campaign rally but many issues have underlying causes or worldviews that inch into the political domain, it is unavoidable.

> The technology backing HN is still massively inferior in every respect to what Usenet was 30 years ago. I tend to read each thread only once, and then only follow up discussions of my own comments. Following a thread over several days is a near hopeless endeavor. Why doesn't anybody combine the light touch moderation of HN, combined with the tools that a decent newsreader like nn or GNUS could provide?

You've just described a traditional threaded forum. Want to discuss some different aspect of a topic? Start a new thread. And in fact this significantly minimizes the amount of "redundant" conversation where four people are arguing similar things in different comment trees of a topic and you make a similar post multiple times.

Furthermore, a threaded model contributes to a more collaborative discussion. It's not upvoting my viewpoint and downvoting yours, as Reddit-style models inevitably turns into, it's just people discussing something because they want to discuss them. Not that arguments and flamewars don't exist, but when you turn it into a points-scoring game, you get sports-team mentality.

But people like the dopamine rush, so everything has to have upvotes and downvotes and scoring nowadays. It is what people congregate to. Traditional forums still exist and yet here we are, all of us.

(I do kind of agree to your point that having an "inbox" model like newsgroups could allow better discussion than a purely comment-tree based model like reddit or HN, but I'm not entirely sure that allowing the discussion to "branch" arbitrarily much is actually a benefit. You can still follow multiple discussions within a single thread on a regular forum too. However, I am very much of the opinion that "voting" systems inherently turn into "sports teams" and eventually a hivemind. The fact that Usenet and traditional forums aren't "gamified" is a huge plus IMO. The fact that "winning" means the dissenting viewpoint is suppressed is extremely problematic - I browse HN with 'showdead' on for exactly that reason.)
There's truth to that in the sense that most wild animals will avoid humans if they can. And, if you can get close to them, there's often something else wrong (maybe the animal is sick, etc.).
> Coyotes have already done an excellent job of coexisting with humans

I have only seen them being 'successful' if are large tracts of land around the cities that they can live at. Would they be able to live in, say, Manhattan?

If not, as we expand the urban sprawl, they might become less successful...
And coyotes are not the only species we should be worried about.
That's true.... that might not be a company you want to work for. If there's not clear strategic direction and things constantly shift, it's very hard to hire anybody effectively into the org.
What’s wrong with Farnam Street?
That’s exactly what I mean. In the last few weeks they seemed to be blocking most independent apps that tried to do something similar. Now their official app is out and their stance makes sense. Not sure how you took my comment to be a reference to anything revenue or free related and your sarcastic tone is unwarranted.
I don't think this is a problem. The greatest concentration of wealth in this cycle has been around mass surveillance & behavior modification. Gone are the days of Google viewed naively as some happy-go-lucky do-no-evil org. We are all as software engineers forced to grapple with the consequences of our work. Optimism is, basically, uncalled for. Why should I be enthusiastic about another VC-backed company set up to spy on & manipulate me?

I disagree with your implied dichotomy between "complaining" and "improving things and building the future" - when everyone who is "building the future" is chasing the exact same surveillance-capitalist business model, what do you propose our reaction should be?
They looked at the numbers, said "Ah, fuck it, this ain't that bad." and resumed production? It's not like the factories are full of 70+ year-old workers.
Our concept of “world” includes and subsumes any animal concept of “world”. Chimpanzees may think of local forest as “the world” but our “world” includes their forest. This, compared to any other non-human species on earth, we are the center of “the” world.

In addition, our actions determine the fates of non-human species much more than their actions our fates.
Please share! The community can help with ‘readiness’ (:
Are you being literal or is it a reference to something? This sounds awfully familiar, but I cannot remember where I heard that.
There are mountain lions in downtown Boulder: https://twitter.com/mitchellbyars/status/1242110542317096960
Here's the text of the bill if anyone's interested in reading it: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748/...
If you can’t find what you need in the man page, because of the bloat, well, it’s the bloat that’s the problem, not the lack of —help.
So they made a Survey Monkey website. Not awesome.
Director of Harvard Center for Communicable Disease on Covid19 Futures
About 7% on average I believe but I can't know about on non average days, like the past ones have been.

I know a lot of people who logged in to their accounts last Monday who never normally to sell shares and hold cash until the market bottoms. I'm guessing the retail volume in the past week has been higher than ever.

Even barring retail investors telling brokers to sell shares, there are all sorts of reasons consumer behavior can force share sales including increased expectation of withdrawals by banks, people not contributing as much to 401k. Defined allocation mutual funds rebalancing, etc. Also, today a lot of low cost brokerages sell trades to algotraders for fulfillment, so an order for the sale of 1 share of a consumer investor can end up accounting for more in trading volume
Given that this pathway is inefficient and plastics aren’t an inefficient food mechanism it seems likely even without a specific limiter it’d be hard for the bacteria to spread widely. Similar to the bacteria that termites host which decompose cellulose. But then again maybe plastic eating termites would co-evolve with such a bacteria. That’s creepy to think about. “My tv got eaten by plastic termites”... As you say life often finds a way.
I don't think that true—what the article is saying is that different hiring activities are more or less useful in predicting the future success of a hire. And the more measures you employee intelligently, the more predictive the process becomes.
The existence of the US oil industry is not unreasonable. The US needs their own oil supply for military security - without domestic production the US would be subject to Russian and OPEC extortion (which the Russians and OPEC are pointing out at the moment).
I don't know about that... I think the only conclusion you could draw from this might be that the market for iOS and Mac _RSS readers_ are almost the same size. You might even be able to stretch it to say they are the _same_ market.
I've wanted something exactly like this, i can read emotions when iam putting close effort into the activity however it's exhausting to do so, reducing the mental toll on myself and other in social interaction is appreciated. Less meltdowns and misunderstandings would a upgrade.
while it sounds too good to be true at this moment i worry that the black box that tells the user the emotion gives no feedback to why it did so, transparently to the user to make a good judgement is essential.
this becomes the heading aid to the autistic it will be same problem the hearing impaired deal with then people find issue with the different.
If eco-terrorists are a subset of eco-fascists, they certainly exist in the real world and are dangerous.
Apple fan/dev here: he's an old school Mac influencer who got famous for writing the first popular Mac RSS client, and blind to the effects his particular narrative would have on those numbers - it's the same 30,000 people who are hip to Mac blog culture, not independent discovery on two separate platforms
You guys seem to be missing the best part. It automatically turns viral particles into a vaccine of sorts.

> Three doses (500 PFU each)of UV-treated aerosol through the IASD, given 9-10 days apart, protected against disease in terms of significantly reduced weight loss compared to the mock-treated group, although the ferrets were not protected against infection.
Yelp is actually pretty bad. They replaced restaurant phone numbers with a GrubHub number without telling users so they can get a cut of any phone order.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-r...
They need to activate the spO2 monitor. Game changer for everyone right now.
We switched from Zoom to Slack as soon as we realised we could use Slack and it’s much easier. But there is a 15 person limit so we’ll switch out for something else in a bigger meeting. It’s too easy to switch.
>(except real estate, health care and higher education).

All also being assets. (Health care equating to health). Who has benefited the most from asset inflation? Those well off or the lower working class?