skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. Without Sybase XI or whatever version they would now be up to, I can see where this could be true. But when MySQL added Views in v5.0.3 as I recall, it met my requirements for an RDBMS.
I agree. My SO ist currently studying from home due to the pandemic. A lot of professors and tutors use what they find first. There is no standard.

She already had to use MS Teams, Slack, Jitsu and Zoom. Her take was that Zoom was by far the most usable tool. And most of her 20 years younger co-students agree.

Sadly most people don't even know about the problematic status of Zoom. And if one tells them, most do not understand what's so problematic about that.
White House orders 3M to halt N95 mask exports to Canada health workers
If DOM manipulation is rarely needed then your web app isn't complex, it's at most a collection of CRUD pages. UI Frameworks like React are for building UI's that accomplish a lot more than that through frequent DOM manipulation. If all you need is CRUD then templating frameworks still exist, are well maintained, and widely in use.
I'm just not sure what it means to talk about "the class of people who own capital". It seems to presume a country that's strictly divided between owners and workers, which hasn't been true for decades at this point; most Americans own at least a little capital.
Does it really matter if they have a hardware disconnect, when the hardware disconnect is controlled by software? It's not truly a hardware disconnect unless there's a physical switch that the user can flip on or off.
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Perhaps I would. I've supported many projects in the past, so I think, if it was really good and did not violate my privacy, there is a fair chance I would.
That sounds pretty fun. I suggest you add some screenshots of what a dashboard might look like. (If I missed them, I'm sorry for the noise)
Wife started a new Travel Tech Support role (Sabre, Concur,Sabre scripts etc) on 23rd of March, was Furloughed 2 days later then reduced to 2.5 days a week the next day (UK Furlough doesn't apply due to start date)

Bad time to be in the travel industry.
Well, it's a similar metaphor to the cake-batter-in-the-oven one that brink provided, both of which are trying to highlight that it's weird to shut off the economy then being surprised that it resulted in greater unemployment, as if it wasn't obvious that one thing would cause the other.
Printing money only leads to inflation if you are full employment/resource utilization. Otherwise the money just facilitates transactions that wanted to occur anyways but didn't have the financial capital to do so; you can always hoover the money back up through taxes afterwards without realizing hyperinflation. Why do you think Japan, Europe, China, US, etc. have been able to print such a significant amount in the last 10 years without the corresponding inflation? Why is the US pushing a 2T stimulus bill without worrying about "how will they pay for it" during a credit crisis today?
Yet even the biggest recent dip sent S&P 500 to levels of say July 2017 when all was super rosy. That doesn't represent the whole market of course but markets now don't really reflect the situation very well.

You can't have a scenario when most folks go into super-saving mode and companies like Amazon or Google maintain their profits. Who the heck would advertise with Google for same prices? I already abandoned non-nencessary shopping (basically food & fuel) for at least few months, Amazon will have to feel this too.
The reason why inflation doesn't happen is the same reason why the stimulus exists in the first place.

Restaurants are suffering from lack of customers? Flooding the market with cheap cash doesn't result in people rushing to the restaurants because they are still at home and the restaurants are closed. Only when that inflated money is actually being spent on scarce goods do we get to see inflation.
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Of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac
Captain Crozier send off by his sailors crew
An out of date mirror, I might add.
> I think Reiki would say that "energy" assists you to heal your own back, but it doesn't specify how that healing takes place.

Yeah, that's a problem. I'm literally asking what this mechanism is. A discipline not being able to take a clear stab at one is a serious yellow card (I appreciate the fact that you personally try below).

> The Reiki experience caused a change of data in your neural system due an information "covert channel" that exists between your system and the practioner, and your muscle tension is relieved.

So, how would this 'covert channel' work? If we can figure it out that is the beginning of scientific telepathy and would thus be a defining discovery of the 21st century.

> The Reiki experience caused a change of gene expression due numerous hormonal changes that occur in your body when you are in that environment.

This is, at least theoretically, falsifiable. Using a RCT between trained Reikists, a sports massage, random masseur, and baseline. It would be expensive.

It still leaves open the question of how the Reiki effects the gene expression. Of course, getting a regular massage or lying down for a bit is going to change your gene expression somewhat.

E.g. is the claim that the mana directly moves transcription factors to the right places so that more of certain proteins get transcribed?
This is a great device. We've never had windows open as much as since we have it, and believe me, it means a lot of headaches that go away every week without any coffee or paracetamol.

The next time we move house, proper ventilation is definitely one of the first things we'll check.
>The pieces could be in place July-ish.. Unfortunately it's going to take an impressive display of administrative competency at the federal level.

I hope when all is said and done, people take their state governments more seriously. The federal government is just not equipped to handle this kind of issue. I've been impressed with California's level of response.
In Florida it was amended adding that it has to be with the intent of concealing identity when committing a crime or intimidating, threatening or harassing another person to be illegal.
In this thread the top two comments couldn't be more opposite:

PRO: "I've become a huge fan of M4 ... M4 was easy to use, and unless you do something crazy, fairly easy to read. "

CON: "M4 is so impotent and crippling difficult to use, that it led me to create my own dumb templating engine[0]"
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The original Puppeteer team switched to Microsoft a half year ago. You can probably find it on Microsofts GitHub and filter the repo's on Typescript.
All our clients are in travel so hard hit and projects just got stopped so we've had to go on furlough to try ride it out for a couple of months and see what comes out of the other side.

It's either going to be massive post-lockdown boom time for the travel industry or it'll be an absolute graveyard of broken companies for at least the next 12 months and we'll have to figure a new course for ourselves.
I agree, it's probably lack of appropriate expertise. There are much more subtle and useful ways to make this intentionally weak (like subtle nonce reuse with GCM). Or just giving Chinese authorities access to the key like the article implies.
I recently moved back to India after my L1 renewal my was denied and just got a place in this years H1b lottery through masters cap with degrees in bio/bioenegineering.

I work in sales/account management for a large MNC (CTSH) and am concerned that because my role is non-technical my chances are slim, and looking at the companies recent applications there have been many denials although they also have the most granted visas. Moreover, my company/immigration team wants me to apply under a generic "SOC code" for computer-system-analysts rather than sales. Is this a bad idea? Any options for improving my chances? Do salary-level/location play a role as well?
> ideally, there would be a 3rd path, which would be direct forgiveness of those debts for a small period. All creditors would take the haircut, instead of the debtors. this means that incoming money would go back into the productive economy.

Isn't bankruptcy exactly this, on a firm level?
These businesses are suffering because of the government's response to the virus -- an economic shutdown that was made necessary by the government's failure to act early and decisively like the governments of South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore have done. This is not something the businesses brought on themselves by "gambling".

Why isn't it reasonable for the government to compensate businesses (and people) who are suffering as a result of the government's screwup?
Do you have a video demo somewhere?
Well, you're doing it wrong. It's easy and fast to run tests against real postgres (takes a fraction of a second to spin up the DB for your tests if you do it right).
It might well be the case, but we've got telephones and even more advanced communication tech these days.
It may have run most popular games with few glitches, but it was far from being accurate.
The political or legal world is declarative, for sure.

Perhaps an inviting flower is declarative to a bee, or reactive chemicals are declarative to each other.

Other than that, I'm not so sure.
I recommend the "Money as Debt" series on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA
As far as I can tell the most common realization of the OODA loop is:

Observe (the concept of the OODA loop as if you are the only person to have ever heard of it)

Orient (yourself in front of your computer)

Decide (to log into any random discussion site)

Act (by explaining the OODA loop in a non-concrete pseudophilosophical way to random people on the internet)
Well, at least in my opinion, it was a good question and the answer across the board is "Yes, these solutions need to be more accessible".

A good part of that is corporations not giving back to OSS but I also think that a large part of OSS developers are missing the point (I keep remembering the story of that one these OSS guy trying to get his printer working but I can't remember his name to find the link).
> These SBA loans are a bandaid.

Why? They're completely forgiven if they keep their employee.s This isn't really a loan, but free money.
The answer might be that truly good people are not willing to work for FAANG, so they have to make do with 100 so-so instead.
The point is that any pattern in the plaintxt data shows up in encrypted data if you use AES-ECB.

Compression does not introdoce entropy to a stream. So assuming that saying the stream is compressed and calling it good is a very bad idea. Please refer to Shannon's source coding theorem. If anything, compression reduces the entropy in the information.
Look at BoxBoat -- consulting company near DC. I know they picked up a lot of Docker Inc's PS stuff and had their own clients. They're all remote, so that helps.
Super interesting.

I have a question on the main product - doesn't pushing the link to email just pass the password breach potential to the email provider?

definitely understand the reduction of attack vectors but does it not consolidate the risk?
I feel like this whole thing is a sideshow.

We should "bailout" based on just 2 criteria:

* would the business be viable if it weren't for corona and will it be viable after coronavirus?

* what's in it for us? We want equity, or juicy interest on the loan or you're industry needs to be a big net contributor of tax revenue.

We made a profit on the TARP activities. Let's do that again, then we can cut taxes and expand services. Who doesn't like that idea!
There's more in the stream than just compressed data. There'll be metadata info that you can make reasonable guesses about. ECB mode lets you take that information and apply it to other blocks in the ciphertext.
Why would it be dangerous?
Americans, maybe. Worldwide, unlikely. But even saying that, having a mortgage and owning and having a few shares in your 401k ... you'd really call that owning capital? The depth of degree of difference between that and even the most minor members of a board of corporation is pretty huge.

Not to mention it's very easy for us in the technical class to not even notice that the vast majority of the country isn't like us. Waiters at restaurants, house cleaners, and the typical taxi/Uber driver own 'capital' in only the most pedantic sense of the word.

Honestly, with the wealth gap is wider than it's been since the 19th century, respectfully I think you're wrong.
Compression does not introdoce entropy to a stream. Please refer to Shannon's source coding theorm.

If anything, it reduces entropy.
What said its software controlled? I’m assuming it’s a magnetic switch.
For context, the majority of server features were removed in macOS Server 5.7.1, with a few features migrated to macOS High Sierra and the remainder left to be handled by open source alternatives. The initial announcement from Apple was discussed on HN in 2018. [1] [2]

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113147
> Competition under our current rules has eliminated the ability of most businesses to save cash or have any real buffer, since they'd lose to the ones that ran month to month right on the edge. Pushing to "end the shutdown" to return things to normal there is a false hope.

There is a huge difference between having money to cover declining sales over the course of a year or a few and having enough to cover 0% of sales due to government mandate. I wouldn't expect any company to have the resources to be able to survive a complete zero'ing of revenue for any sustained amount of time.
Partly because it isn't really problematic for students and teachers that are trying to use VTC.

When the alternatives don't work, it doesn't really matter how secure the alternatives are.
> Society has to get used to the paradigm that 50% are asymptomatic and can return to the economy, while at the same time compromising for the other 50% that need to stay home and quarantine.

Nobody knows who they are until they get infected (and sometimes not even then, if they don't present much). 50% of the people going back and half of them having problems would still completely overflow all our healthcare capacity and many of them would die.

The perfect plan would be to massively ramp-up the healthcare system capacity as fast as possible and to fit those that need extra attention to our ability to provide it perfectly. The problems with this are manifold:

- The time the professional help is needed is often a week or more after infection and long after they've been contagious, making planning hard.

- Knowing how people interact and congregate and spread the disease is essentially unknowable when people are actually interacting, so the only way to have any semblance of forecasting ability is to prevent interactions.

- Having surplus capacity by 10% doesn't kill anyone. Having surplus patients you can't handle by 10% means deaths, and at a high percentage rate (I wouldn't be surprised if it's 10% of that cohort or higher). As the capacity ramps up, we're also talking about really large numbers. If we can handle 10 million people in the healthcare system, being off my 10% and having 10% of those die because of it is 100,000 people.

- The spread is not even, there will be hot spots that outstrip local capacity while remote capacity is underutilized.

Right now we have people afraid, but we don't have a massive panic so much, depending on where you are. Once a lot more people start dying, and people around you that you know, then real panic will start, and that might make any economic problems we're seeing now look tame comparatively.
BoA seems to be only letting people with some sort of loan product with them apply.

> “We have to focus on the borrowing clients to make sure we can take care of them,” he said.

This sounds like Bank of America is trying to help their clients that are at a default risk to themselves first, which is a bailout for themselves rather than small businesses at large.
Are you just being pedantic?
One of my favorite bread shops is basically in tears on instagram due to this thing. They've tried a few approaches to improve sales but they're basically closing shop for now.
Begs the question - how do they detect the lid is closed? In software? :P
There is a huge difference between 'bad times' and having your business eliminated by government mandate.

Even during the recession of 2008, demand didn't go to zero. It is insane to expect anyone, business, individual, or otherwise, to be able to go completely without income for any prolonged period of time.
'TLSF' sounds very interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on that project. What are the reference-counting options for though, given the absence of weak references? Under what circumstances is it acceptable to permit memory-leaks in case of cycles? Short-lived processes (i.e. arena-based memory management)?

When I say 'primitive GC', I mean Boehm, which is obviously decades behind the state of the art, but easy to get off the ground. GNU Guile uses it, for instance. Serious garbage collectors are tremendously complex, and are something less popular languages unfortunately tend to lack. I believe even D is miles behind Java.

Can't say I know much about Go's GC.

Edit Oops I misread, TLSF isn't a GC, it's an allocator. It sounds then like Nim doesn't have a proper real-time solution, does it? useRealtimeGC is actually a leaky reference-counting system?
> On the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers with the T2 chip, and on the 15-inch MacBook Pro portables from 2019 or later, this disconnect is implemented in hardware alone.
Dismantling democracy? Virus used as excuse to quell dissent
> "Ceasing all export of respirators produced in the United States would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same, as some have already done. If that were to occur, the net number of respirators being made available to the United States would actually decrease. That is the opposite of what we and the administration, on behalf of the American people, both seek."

3Ms statement
There's lay-offs and then there's "I got fired this week." Does this document tell the difference? Because those numbers look about right for an industry that does have some involuntary turn-over week to week.
I get what he's asserting, I just think he's wrong.
I mean... you can only remain employed because the government offers a guaranteed insurance program for employment, but doesn't for business. There's no real reason why employment is safer other than government subsidies to appease the masses.
Why should Facebook be doing any of that?

Even the best case outcome is negative here.
>And before starting to bash me, please do this. Make a small application that will show a map, put 100 million points of interest on that map, that are contained in the table we talk about, and now as you scroll the map, select the middle of view as your circle and select on a small radius only those points of interest inside that radius. No more then a thousand points of interest, lets say. When you do that within a second, you got yourself a good database. For me PGSQL was the only one capable to do this reliable.

This is a bad example. An SQL database is a wrong tool for the job if you care about performance.

You want a data structure like a range tree[1] or a k-d tree[2]. The results would be near-instantaneous.

100 million lat/lng pairs is something you can fit in RAM without any problem. And you can even do the geometry query on the client side for performance in milliseconds.

Other examples might need SQL, but here, this would be doing things the wrong way.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_tree

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-d_tree
This is fantastic. Now I need this for Rimworld...
I love these behind the scenes accounts of stuff.
Doesn't MFI use software to do verification? If the presence of a MFI software command is what disables and enables the microphone, that sure sounds like software control.

Sure, maybe its software on a peripheral that controls it. But it's software never the less.
Do you have a good Postgres DBA? Autovacuum can indeed ruin your day if you have a 24/7 DB that is delete or update heavy (the default setting are not very aggressive and once it falls behind badly it will never catch up and you'll need to do some emergency manual vacuuming). But I can assure you it's possible to run 24/7 DBs fine without running into autovacuming problems by making sure things are configured right. I've experienced both regular problems due to bad config and their complete disappearance.