skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kraft wasn't taken over buy 3G because it was loosing money, it just wasn't profitable "enough". That someone thinks there's more money to be made is not the same thing as a problem.

The Sealy LBO is another one that got more attention than usual because of Mitt Romney's association.
That is precisely what Google did do the first time they bought them, as Dodgeball.
Isotope – statically-dynamic UI library
Same story happened to me last Friday. I put in an order on their website, met their minimum delivery order amount, and yet when I got the confirmation email an hour later, I found out 3/4 of my items were being shipped to my nearest (35min, 60km) home depot.

I called customer service and was told it was impossible to change the order so all get delivered, and that it was impossible to cancel the order. My only recourse is to go to their wharehouse, pick it up, then ship it back.

I don't love amazon, but they don't pull this crap on me.
Taleb elaborates on this idea quite a bit. Opinions are irrelevant, what matters is your position. Opinions are useless without a downside.

For example, don't tell me that you think Microsoft is a good or bad company. Tell me how many shares of Microsoft you own or how you're shorting Microsoft.
This is likely the case, but can you site some sources?
That has been their primary business model for many years now.

I imagine the data from both of them, standalone is quickly becoming flawed/inaccurate. From Foursquare's perspective, less users means less data coming in, and you need a LOT of data for location insights to be meaningful.
> the readv() call will block until all iovec buffers are fil led with file data. Once it returns, we should be able to access the file data from the iovecs and print them on the console.

This is wrong. readv() can return as soon as a single byte had been read, in a similar fashion as read(). If you need to read all bytes you have to use a loop. This program is potentially printing non-initialized memory.

I think the same applies to the uring examples, which also don't seem to check the actual processed bytes.

I'm also actually not sure if in the uring version requests are guaranteed to be processed in order or not. I would have assumed the latter - and thereby the printed result could have been out of order.

Obviously the demos also miss all the required memory management - but I guess that was intended. But if we would add it, the uring versions would increase more in complexity than the synchronous version.

==> IO is hard. uring is exciting for high performance use-cases, but will rather make it harder than easier. However ideally most end-users would not have to use it directly (and neither liburing), but instead use an async/await/coroutine framework on top of it that makes the asyncness transparent to the application and allows to avoid most of the pitfalls.
You are looking at the situation from the wrong angle. Frameworks and languages are tools you use towards solving a problem. In the same way that mechanics don't spend their days wondering how they will use their wrench but rather what tools they need to fix an engine, you need to focus on a problem that needs fixing. Find a problem in some subjects you like and fix it.

Also, make a plan so you see an end. Doing something without figuring out when you will quit is a sure way toward quitting before you get anything accomplished.
National Center for Home Food Preservation
My training was in a hospital medical center and I'm familiar with epidemiology. I think most claims about total deaths due to covid are uninformed speculation based on incomplete data.

You are making predictions that we have absolutely no confidence about. That's not helpful. I'm saying we don't have the data to claim what you're claiming.
Nope.

The MTA was already doing better last few years (thanks train daddy). Relying on fares is stupid anyways. There were lots of pointless station improvements as others said.

As to the costs, union, and automation, I would explicitly trade a huge increase in new line capital costs for driverless or whatever trains, and get all those drivers retrained to contribute to the capital costs. In general, I think workers should be incentivized to assist with their jobs' obselesence, and this will make everything smoother and easier.

Regardless, that is a long way off. We need new signals far more than we need driverless trains, and there is no labor-automation conflict there.
You can include whatever content you want inside the tag. When the component is defined, that content won't render (the shadow root doesn't have any <slot>s). When the component is undefined it will.

It's very similar to <script> / <noscript> in some ways.
ok, fine, too serious. no worries.
What a great post. That one's going in the next highlights list, if we ever revive those.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson Admitted to Intensive Care (Covid-19)
Did Fox News actually dump Laura Ingraham? I've never heard about this. She still seems to be on TV.
Man, 100% opposite opinion -- I thought Other M was terrible, particularly the writing and pacing.
Right, but I expressed my opinion on your political divide and newspapers, not PG's links.
My aunt sent me a video asking my opinion (yay?), and I've been hearing ominous FUD about "5G" long enough that I wanted to see where it was actually coming from. So I watched it.

The bit I gleaned was the claim that since 60GHz is absorbed by oxygen (haven't checked this, but I'd assume similar to 2.4GHz being absorbed by water), it therefore interferes with your lungs' ability to intake oxygen. (my low-effort analysis: the radio waves won't penetrate your skin by more than a few millimeters, and therefore could in no way act in your lungs)

The whole narrative was much jumping around making connections that would seem plausible if you don't know or try to investigate technical details. For example - a defense contractor worked on 60GHz gear as well as communications for cruise ships -> smoking gun!

I'm sure there was plenty of innuendo that rolled right off my back, but makes an emotional impression. My aunt had gotten the impression that 5G is 50-60 times the power of a microwave oven. I couldn't bring myself to watch the video again to find what could possibly be interpreted this way, but I'm guessing it was talking about the frequency while implying magnitude.
...ease of dividing people into smaller teams where a team could focus on a single objective without worrying about rest of the company.

How's that working out for you?

In most cases, and I'm talking right up to the scale of very large enterprises[1] you don't need that much complexity to scale technically and, if you avoid the complexity, you don't need that many people either.

And I don't think you can ever afford to be myopic if you want to effectively deliver solutions to real business problems.

[1] 90k employees, specifically, but also, specifically, not a tech company. A traditional company with a tech function.
or alibris.com
If the crux of your argument relies on looking at what has happened so far without looking at projections into what could happen, then I have some stock to sell you. You'll buy at the top since the last quarter's earnings were good, right?
Exactly.

What is meant by “OpenAPT?”?
That's insane. Shouldn't it be the opposite as he famously called it a hoax and so on? Disregarding whatever nonsense he has said on many past occasions. Oh well. In this case I'd only quote George Carlin here: "The public sucks".
‘disease hunters’ developed a technique for tracking pandemics after 9/11
Silver Lake, Sixth Street Partners Invest $1B in Airbnb
Paul is off by a mile and a half on this one. They weren't worried about getting caught. At all. The thing they would be worried about is whether or not getting caught would have consequences. And if there is anything that you could have learned from the last three years then it is that lying to the public carries no consequences at all.
As an example, when you hear a politician say something outrages, insane, or crazy. Instead of thinking "oh my, what a fool this person is", consider that they may be performing, in a way agreed upon by his or her follow politicians. They know it isn't true, but that doesn't matter, because the audience doesn't care.
Libcsp: a fast C concurrency library influenced by the CSP model
This really puts into words/framework what I’ve been thinking for a while. Thanks for sharing.
Gamification with locations can go a long way. Pre-Swamp 4sq, Pokemon Go, and even Google Maps Timeline is addicting. I try to de-Google myself a lot, but at the same time, I find myself perfecting my Google maps timeline so I know the places I've already been to.
Were you previously on Nightly? Thinking of: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/01/14/moving-to-a-prof...
>Some of the clips show in the video referenced in the article actually seem pretty "sane" to me - the one guy saying "I'm not worried about getting this illness", another saying for most people it will seem just like the flu. Those two statements, as far as we know, are not that outlandish, right? I'm certainly not worried about myself, and for many people it does seem to be mild or asymptomatic?

The flu season is 6 months for ~ 40k deaths.

We are at 10k deaths of covid in the USA. Depending on how you measure the 'season' it could be as little as a month in. If we keep with these numbers it will surely pass the flu death toll for the same time period.

Now also consider that unlike flu, we have no vaccine and the virus kills people in the prime of their life just as much as the elderly. We also have no idea on the way this virus works. We are making assumptions that it will work like a normal flu virus. There is anecdotal evidence it resides in people even after they have 'recovered', which isn't the same as a normal flu or cold. It is certainly something to be concerned with.
This a life changing video by Gil Tene on this topic. Bottom line is because of the number requests to support a single customer "request", the high percentiles are the ones that actually matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU&list=WL&index=22...
One problem is that you are required to sign away your rights in order to contribute, so that in the future you might not have the rights to use your own work.

Then there are proprietary extensions, like the "remote" extension (1) that competes with Theia's open source solution.

Also see open source vs FOSS (2)

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792612

2) http://wiki.c2.com/?FreeAsInBeer
I suppose it's a worthwhile concept. You can certainly look at professional politics, corporate messaging and the financial crises, basically all elite-preservation systems, through a kayfabe lens.

On the other hand, I think everyone would be better off reading Propaganda, by Bernays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)

It's short.
Trick SARS-Cov-2 learned that makes it nastier than the first SARS
Live* reactJS – design, build, deploy – planning clip
On this subject, does anyone have any suggestions for games that would work for a small group of 5-6 year olds?

Guess Who and Battleships would obviously work well for one-on one, but something for three or four would be good.
Given how muddled this essay it, it appears that whatever this author is talking about has not improved his own cognitive toolkit to the point where he is able to express his thoughts clearly.
Moreover, a lot of computer systems in the USA, for decades, have included a message telling employees that their access and use of the computer may be monitored, which seems similar to me to a sign in the break room letting you know if video/audio recording is in progress...
Naming is always hard, but sometimes the "what" requires a full paragraph, and even very long variable names shouldn't exceed 80 characters all on their own.

torque_aux_motor_braking_only_safety_threshold_nm is a good variable name, but I wouldn't want to let them get much longer than that.
Sadly that interview didn't reveal that much, only that he left not by choice, and "still hurts him".

The only somewhat objective info about it was that he didn't have a defined role in the company anymore.
here is the paper he links to in the thread: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x
> Blaming journalist and politics, why not, I guess some of them deserve it, but my neighbour could have done the same analysis after couple of pints at the pub.

They absolutely deserve the blame more than your neighbor, because they have a power of influence ~10e6 times greater than your neighbor at the pub. They chose to use that influence to back a narrative to support their political inclinations amid an emergency. The responsible thing to have said is: "We don't know what the severity of this will be, but we'll report things as we find out from authorities."
Oh. My. God.

This is amazing.
Can you keep the discussion fact-based?
Simple numbers tell us the deaths so far from covid-19 have been less than an average flu season. But so what?

You're not actually suggesting anything so there's nothing to get directly angry about. But since you don't suggest anything, you leave it to people to infer what you really mean, and then there may be good reason to get angry.

Are you suggesting that we should have treated covid-19 like the flu -- although one without a vaccine -- and just went about our normal lives? If so, how much faster do you think our medical systems would have been overwhelmed and what do you think we could have done about that? You can crunch numbers... estimate the numbers dead from covid-19 without any curve-flattening efforts and the additional dead due to the medical system being overwhelmed.

Or are you suggesting something else? We can't read your mind over the internet.
What are they infringing on? Site layout? There are tons of Github alternatives that all follow similar layout and styles. Gitlab, Gogs, Bitbucket...
Sure, David Barber was off by a bit in that particular sentence, but arctic sea ice minima are now half of their historical values, and dropping. It is true, that in complex dynamic systems, predictions have to have wide error bars, but he was way less wrong than the charlatans who claim this isn't a problem or isn't a trend.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/
The NYC health commissioner was saying to go outside and take the subway Feb 7th, 4 days after Trump's China ban went into effect.

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1243539189020401664?s...

Literally everyone was saying it's not as bad as the Flu. I don't see why we're playing the blame game in the peak of things.

I could definitely tell you WHO (China) is to blame, but now isn't the time.

Also:

https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1245478539018805251?s=20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/31/how-our-br...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/world/europe/coronavirus-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/the-flu-has-already-killed-1...

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1225937322694381568

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/122367623706063667...

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/124526211463933952...

https://i.imgur.com/43n4HWK.png
Do you have a source for corona infecting the inferior part of your throat rather than the inferior part? I know you spoke to doctors, but I find it incredibly difficult to find credible sources other than either

incredibly simplified accessible articles on mainstream health websites, stating that a symptom is "throat pain"

or having to go through 20 pages of medical research which I understand basically nothing of.
>But there is also a perverse incentive going on right now because of the expansion of unemployment. We have already had one employee quit to take an unemployment raise. The Senators who raised concerns about this were right. Unemployment payouts should have been capped at whatever the previous income was.

Wasn't Bernie the one who would have blocked for that issue?
Could that be caused by the fact that compilation authors are clearly on Dem side? Trump's travel ban was called racist by whom?

(I'm also an outsider.)
I don't understand why people don't like Erlang so much [1]. It has many excellent features and the runtime stability is unmatched.

[1] https://www.codementor.io/blog/worst-languages-2019-6mvbfg3w...
I get a "A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations." when I try to start any match.
I'm not sure these concerns are unique to any other business with a warehouse, however.
Another interesting implementation of Quake in the browser is this: https://openarena.live/
It's still stealing, the correct move would be to go back and pay the correct amount as you likely would have done if they overcharged you.

That said, I doubt you could legally be held responsible and I see no problems with what you did morally either. If you noticed at the time I'd find it morally questionable, but you can't fix every mistake.
Late-night satire shows are not politically unbiased, nor do they attempt to be. They cater to their audience, the same way those who they satirize do.
WaitButWhy's "The Story of Us" (https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html), in particular "The Sick Giant" (https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/sick-giant.html), provides a really good explanation of what might be going on here.
A lot of people were asking WTF about Facebook, Apple, etc having tons of masks - CA pretty much had temporary mandatory "you must have enough for all of your workers" declarations during wildfires.
Disappointed to find out this is not Quake 1
B&M has flyers (junk mail) which convert very well, even in 2020. Full color flyers and coupons do a much better job of advertising deals because they go straight to your mail. I throw them away, but I still see the cover page and sometimes that's enough.

Compare that to needing to have some app installed on your phone, tracking you 24/7.
I am not in any way qualified in the medical domain but these methods look similar to the other Study that was viewed as flawed that showed it did work. Seems there is no solid data either way.
yp prefix, eg ypwhich ypcat, etc. Stands for Yellow Page, later became Sun NIS because Yellow Page is a trademark.
I've been porting parts of a Swift / iOS app to a shared Kotlin Native / Multiplatform library and learning more about Android development, I hope to release an Android version of the my app. I'm also eyeing Flutter and hoping to try it out in the near future.
Put simply, one might think of kayfabe as a consensus on the agreement of illusion; a suspension of reality.

Why would anyone do this?

For one, suspended reality allows us to be creative and simulate outcomes that otherwise would not occur in real life.

But also, it can occur under information asymmetry. If something seems fake to me, but I am not sure if _you_ believe it is fake or not (and vice versa), we both might pretend something is real for the sake of not offending one another.

This segues into another of Weinstein's terms (originally from Timur Kuran) called "preference falsification": if no one has to falsify their beliefs, we might just _state_ things we don't actually believe in, since we don't know what other people actually believe, and we don't want to run the risk of being ostracized.

Overall, these two concepts explain how otherwise tenuous theories can be believed (or at least stated to be believed) by large groups of people.
The facts didn’t change: it’s the same virus now as it was then. Our understanding of it may have changed. But even then, its lethality was obvious to anyone who didn’t think Europeans are somehow different from Chinese.

And it’s easy to prove that this virus was considered dangerous even back then: this whole shtick of shaking hands and talking about it doesn’t make any sense except against the backdrop of people warning against it.

It was a macho bravado move; performative politics put on as a gambit to win another news cycle in the endless culture wars. And it is so obvious a parallel to Brexit, from the blatant disregard of evidence, expertise, and science all the way to the hints of racism, that no appeal of “not the day to get into the politics” will be able to prevent people from seeing the obvious: it was incredibly stupid.

To not point out how his kind of politics is now endangering his life would waste an opportunity to learn, at a moment where decisions can still influence outcomes, and good decisions can make the difference for thousands of people who may or may not die. With that in mind, it is also in everyone’s interest, beyond basic humanity demanding it, to hope for his survival: Boris Johnson is a terrible person in many regards, but he isn’t entirely stupid. There’s a good chance he would learn from this, and he may well be the perfect ambassador that can get through to his fans.
We have two main different ways to attack the problem of age, and both have issues

> But as scientists know the rate at which this isotope decays, it is a very useful marker in determining age... The older the creature, the less Carbon-14 you'd expect to find.

They are registering decay in the level of carbon-14.

The clock is adjusted for bone (storing this isotope as a more or less permanent crystalline mix of carbone and calcium). This is cartilage.

And teeth in sharks last only for some period ranging between, lets say, two weeks and two years (100 days for a white shark or so). Somewhere inside this period, those pieces storing carbon-14 will fall and will need to be replaced in a few days. If the reserves are mobilised from vertebra to tooth, then you would expect to find much less carbon-14 than usual.

Therefore you could conclude than the fish is much older than it really is.

Counting the number and type of rings on vertebra is a different problem, and is affected by fasting and starving periods.
It is annoying that some of these companies refuse to allow me to use a Twilio number when they insist on using SMS as 2FA. If they are going to insist on the weakest possible form of 2FA and INSIST that I use a number which is subject to SIM hijacking, how are they not liable through negligence?
https://abc7news.com/amp/coronavirus-drug-covid-19-malaria-h...

Not a study but just another anecdote. Using zinc this time round rather than azithromycin.
n = 11?
They were on a good trajectory of being put of the business by Youtube. But than "authoritative sources" came.
The difference is that biologists look at macro data and medical professionals look at micro data.

OF course there are a few ICU's with high occupancy rates due to the nature of the disease and the intensity with which it hits high population areas with older populations.

However, overall on a MACRO level WORLD wide it's no worse than a season of the flu.