skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qualcomm's latest flagship soc (865) with 5G has Bluetooth 5.1 support as far as I know.
Why would you want to print inside a pure function though?
Young COBOL specialists are being fired here and there. They can't find a job. They can't "volunteer" either they need to get paid at the end of the day.

I see Fiserv firing all their 3-6 years COBOL juniors (last in, first out.) They retain only the most expensive 15-25 years pros.
Vision, passion, and being realistic. All the management techniques won't replace that.

You need vision to gain a credible and influencal seat in front of management and customers, and hear from them. And not just saying yes to the last one who spoke.

You need passion to cope with all the crap (difficulties, management, engineers, customers, nay-sayers, finding ressources, etc).

And you need to be realistic and pragmatic to make something happen, even if not perfect/ideal. Maye next round.
Services that let you do “handwritten” thank you notes at scale
A Wrinkle in Clojure
Nothing better than a little red meat from Fox's Tucker Carlson for Saturday breakfast!

He makes a few good arguments but nothing that hasn't been asked before.

I'm surprised he didn't ask: Why the 44 million uninsured US workers should stay home and go broke, just to keep the hospitals that they cant even afford to go to, running?

Maybe that would be a bit too close to Socialism for any Fox news anchor to ask!
Exactly. If we're pedantic about it, a charge signal moves at the speed of light. But the signals are what computers use.
The evolution of trust
Awesome stuff Ben! Could this be deployed via kind by passing the necessary mounts into a node, then mounting those mounts via hostPath in the pods?
The Bible is pretty clear that private, personal prayer counts, and is even preferable. There’s always Zoom, too.
The quickest way to see their "not harmless" side is to kill one. As with many colony wasp species, other individuals will smell volatiles released by the corpse, and respond by seeking out whatever killed their sister in order to strongly discourage any further such liberties.

So, best leave them well alone. (Unless you're me, and willing to risk a sting in order to get macro shots, although it's not all that much of a risk as long as I'm not near the nest. Never have found any hornets yet, though, sad to say, not even D. maculata.)
> Thats why we have severe punishment for murder

Not a great comfort to the murdered person or their family, I'd venture.
The human senses for intensity (brightness, volume, etc) apply a logarithmic transform before our conscious brain interprets the sensations. That's why we don't develop an intuition for exponential scales in abstract concepts.

Also, exponential growth means that every derivative is exponential, so there is no way to get an approximate single number of magnitude, rate of change, acceleration...

We can take a few derivatives intuitively (velocity, accelerarion/force).

We're not even that good at understanding quadtratic growth, let alone higher polynomials and exponentials.

If you accelerate at 10m/s/s (gravity), how far will you travel in a year (100K seconds)?
Just like every treatment protocol, this will have to be tested properly to see: if it is actually effective, what are the risks, who would this work for, etc.

I view what we’re doing right now as buying time for treatment protocol testing, since right now our treatment is to help the symptoms. Only once we have something, maybe this, that has been testing and shows to decrease the length of time being sick and severity of illness can we go back to our normal lives.
Ask HN: Free stuff during Covid-19 pandemic?
What are all the stuff that became free during Covid-19 pandemic??
You can submit jobs to JES2 from USS with a shell script. Easiest way I found was to fuse-mount a working directory, edit everything with VSCode/Vim With COBOL Extensions and have two shells, one constantly reading the output data file and another for submitting job cards.
"Why? Because coding a percentage in COBOL would take an estimated five months."

Five months to code a percentage, or five months to add the calculation, integrate that data point with other systems (does this need to be shown as its own field on any unemployment forms or reports? etc.), test it to the point where it has been demonstrated stable enough to be included in a critical system, and then deliver this change?

I don't know the first thing about COBOL but the fact that government is (for good reasons) slow to move, the stability needed in critical things like unemployment processing, and all the other things that go into "coding a percentage", explain that timeline a hell of a lot more than what language was used.
I remember from GW-BASIC there being, ERR, ERL, CSRLIN, and probably a few others. C64 BASIC V2.0 had ST and TI/TI$.

BASIC's version of $RANDOM is RND(x), and I remember that the sign of the argument was the most important thing. Negative values seeded the PRNG and any positive argument got you the next random number. Some later dialects had a RANDOMIZE statement.

The funny thing is BASIC also had a couple functions that took input variables, but didn't do anything with them, like POS() and FRE(). I think FRE's argument may have been significant on a couple BASICs.
Ask HN: Will Covid-19 Response Influence Your Next Job?
Will the response that a company has to this pandemic have an impact on whether you choose to work for them future?
This is true. Back in the day, COBOL was marketed to businiess people as an easy to learn code to just get stuff done. Serious programming was done with FORTRAN.
But you do have to invent something or you wouldn't be writing a program in the first place.

As soon as you need to control the order of execution, memory usage, IO, or any combination of those, you are fighting the language and into territory of things you can technically do and out of the realm of things the language makes easy.
It's for runtime debug logging after all, not intended to solve those issues.

Space leaks I'd like to read more about but writings about them are a bit hard to come by. Recommendations?
When Dostoevsky Faced a Firing Squad
Link for the curious: https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers
I’d say compared to other languages there’s been two big issues:

1. A not insignificant number of packages are either polyfilling things in browsers, or providing a consistent (or ‘isomorphic') API for certain things across both browsers and Node.js, or adding things that should have been in a standard library.

2. A lot of packages still seem to be distributed primarily as CommonJS and not ES Modules. CommonJS makes tree-shaking harder than it should, so it was often just easier to break what should have been a single library into many smaller pieces.

Hopefully in the not too distant future library maintainers get around to reading the Node.js docs[0] fix some of this.

[0] https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html
There's escape hatches here and there. If you need imperative code, use IO or ST. If you need to debug output something, Debug.Trace.

If you need to temporarily bypass purity there's unsafePerformIO and friends (or they can occasionally be used permanently if you do a lot of analysis I believe).

It's a pretty practical language compared to its reputation.
Coronavirus May Kill Our Fracking Fever Dream
The current release hasn’t BSOD’d on me yet, so they’re at least headed in the right direction. I’m still a bit mystified how they still have the same graphical glitches the ancient version of Firefox they support.

It would also be nice if they had VMware drivers out of the box, but given how quickly the project progresses I may be asking for too much in that regard.
Pluralsight is free for the month of april
https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/2020/free-april-month

Coursera providing free courses
https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-free-certificat...
Dating App Through Facebook – Dating App Facebook – Facebook Account Sign Up
I agree. You should start a competing business with lower prices and and drive them out.

Guess what? It costs more than $3 to drive a $10 order to your apartment.
European honey bees, such as those in the US, lack this adaptation, which is a big part of why it's important to prevent V. mandarinia colonizing the US.
It all the other kubernetes admins are like me, they immediately had a panic attack and started writing up Jira tickets instead of commenting.
Second this:

I actually had forestry in school (went to farming school for 18 months).

A mandatory part of the education was a video with reconstructions of some of the ways farmers get killed or injured, things like getting crushed by the tractor because the brakes didn't work or getting jammed in the winch while pulling logs.

Close to where I grew up someone about the age of my dad nearly cut his left leg of, bit saved his life by getting into the tractor and IIRC using his right leg to handle the clutch so he could get the tractor running to get home to call for help (yep, no cell phones back then).
I work at a place that writes new Fortran code today. Also c++, Python, Julia. Scientists will choose the least impedance mismatch to a library, some needed data set, or their brain.
Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) – The Data – Our World in Data
I took a look, this sounds more unique to Rust than Go or Python, but they all can do it to some degree. I have no hands on experience with Rust to really have any reasonable input on this so I don’t want to make an uninformed statement.
Audible providing free audiobooks to listen for teens and chilidren
https://stories.audible.com/discovery
The local curry house isn't the iOS app store. If they charge too much for delivery you can easily buy from someone else. Especially if it's delivery and you don't have to go to the shop.
Obviously. I think having your location tracked for a few days, if you are infected, is not a serious concern.

In fact, there is absolutely no way I can see that can get around that.
The only thing legally allowed in this in country, a hard currency.
There is a huge jump to make from cells in a dish to people.
Or this

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi...
as long as its on a rapid boil then it sounds like every trip to India I’ve ever taken. This comment has no substance. Just a random thought.
Well now this lucky poster finally has a discussion around it and all the duplicates you posted still have no comments. Only links to the same article with no discussion which isn't useful as a 'duplicate'.
Religious Easter Picture for Facebook Timeline – Easter Pictures for Facebook
the severe punishment to prevent the murder to happen in the first place.
That was an answer I am looking for now I have a point that I can search on. Thank you, really appreciate it.
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life
These types of issues are the biggest reason why I avoid javascript/npm projects. I came back to a project after a few months and it was broken, had to rewrite some parts and upgrade other parts just to get it to run again.
Why %? What is the correlation between cost of a food order and cost of delivery? There is none.

This is absurd politician's syllogisming.
>But seriously, it can't be good to walk around with a boner all day every day. Could be intimidating for women too. And embarrassing for men. Maybe if it's effective to people already infected and in hospital anyway. But I couldn't see this socially feasible as a preventative drug.

That's not how viagra works. It makes an erection possible, it doesn't cause one.

it inhibits an enzyme responsible for constricting bloodflow, as far as I know.

the whole viagra causes boners thing is really just a convenient gimmick for comedians.

if you want something that causes a boner, look at percutaneous perineal electrostimulation[0].

when THAT becomes the treatment for covid19 we're in trouble.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2435023/
Original reporting from January

https://www.sciencealert.com/standard-physics-has-been-ruled...

https://www.livescience.com/antarctic-neutrino-mystery-deepe...
Parsing the Interactive Shader Format (ISF)
Won't this have to iterate through linked lists and create multiple new heap allocations on each recursive step? Doesn't that imply n log n heap allocations just to sort a list?
This was a fantastic experience! Probably the first time I've felt that online catchups could be like group ones. Had a good chat with Cyrus and some others. I could really imagine myself hanging out on here more often (despite never really being one for chatrooms).

Thank you for making this! I had a blast.
(Guy - Australia)
You make a good point — I suppose conduct codes are the HR department for mailing lists. I’ve always thought of collaborative open source communities as groups of friends or at least like minded hobbyists with a common thread of likeability, but I suppose they are a lot more like workplaces.
I made the plunge a few years ago to get a gvido device, which is similar. The big problem is the refresh rate on the device. It is incredibly slow to flip pages, which is a big problem when you're playing. I spent $1500, and the device is basically useless because it's so slow. And the japanese based company doesn't take open box returns, so now I'm stuck with it.

If the device could flip pages quickly, it would be an amazing device. It just can't.
Indeed that's true, but my point is I don't care, I am just asking questions and not waiting for upvotes, just here waiting for comments like "lonelappde"'s comment. If you don't like it move on There are bunch of other things. That's easy, huh?
Coronavirus patients can suffer lasting bodily damage, even after recovery
I'm 15 so no kids yet but I can still give my perspective. Don't become obsessed with making your kid successful but make sure they are happy first. Especially in these trying times it's important they feel you are there for them. Try to find things they enjoy doing and help them discover different ways of creation but don't push something they don't like.

For example, I discovered programming with my dad's help and I like it so much that I am constantly learning more on my own now.

Finding something they are motivated in is 10x more useful than forcing them to do something they don't enjoy.
Love the concept! However, is it possible to include a line or two in the actual app about what it does? I was very confused until I read this comment.
It's fine. Just like with the freelancer's law, local restaurants and delivery services will be replaced by out of town ones. So you'll be able to get dinner delivered from Palo Alto instead.

Plenty of time to preheat the oven for your cold delivery.
Agreed. The concepts are very useful and applicable elsewhere.
Singapore stops teachers using Zoom app after 'serious incidents'
How to Run a Giveaway on Discord
There's an interesting age bias there. My parents write letters, my generation much less so. I don't know if I currently have stamps. Our votes count the same though.
There is no such claim on the blog post: instead, a commenter here is making that case.

Anyway, I hate the use of "invent" here: people come up with similar ideas all the time — mostly because the tooling and technology of an era makes a set of problems solvable in a "novel" way that was not possible beforehand. Who gets to patent anything does not necessarily mean they "invented" it.
Funny, yeah I wasn't sober. You should be quite smart to come up with those sarcasm ahaha
My concern with npm packages isn't the number and small size of the packages itself, but that most of them are maintained and owned by individuals who do work with little review by others and who could disappear any time. If an individual goes away or takes harmful action it takes time till this is noticed and till a surviving fork emerges.

If more libraries were maintained by groups in a shared/collaborative way, more of those risks would go away.
I don't know about that. I suspect that most of the truly essential work (health care, driving trucks/trains, keeping power plants running, producing food and toilet paper, etc.) still can't be done from home.

I also think that, precisely because of that, social distancing will only slow the rate of exponential growth, not prevent it.
Remember that not trusting mainstream medicine is no reason at all to trust non-mainstream medicine.

Non-mainstream medicine advises us to eat garlic with alcohol, wash with saline solution, take antibiotics, and burn down a mobile phone mast.
Except (filter odd? [1 2 3 4 5]) does not return a list. It returns a lazy sequence.
Welcome to being PM -- this is the job.

And this is exactly what the agile/sprint process is extremely helpful for.

Every two weeks, check in with the business team to bring them up to date with development and get them to prioritize/rank the features they want.

Then hold a big meeting with your team and use planning poker to estimate how long the top-ranked items will take. Inevitably it'll add up to 2 or 3 months of work.

Then go back to the business team with the realistic estimates for each task, and get them to pick what is actually most important to deliver or make progress on in the next 2 weeks.

Then work on those for the following two weeks. Rinse and repeat.

The key thing here is that there is an objective process. Nobody can blame you or any single developer -- there is a process. And after several of these iterations, the process will build trust among everyone, instead of blame or suspicion.

Also, you might think this leaves you with no room for input of your own. And in a way this is true -- welcome to being a PM. Your job is to manage and balance other people's priorities, not your own wishlist of features. But it is crucially your job to advise well and point out inconsistencies/dependencies -- e.g. sales wants feature A but the CEO wants feature B... but if we deliver B before A then together they'll take half the time, or will enable feature C earlier, or whatever.

And it's also your job to keep your eye on the long-term goals, which will generally be set by the CEO or management team -- sometimes you have to deliver feature X that management requires by the end of the quarter, over anything the sales team wants -- which you just gently explain to sales.
It's nice but missing one important piece of computer history; The Deathbed Vigil by Dave Haynie.
Not all commutes are in Urban environments.
Great article. I learned a bunch of things I didn’t know about Numpy and Clojure. As far as I’m concerned the Dragan does rock.
Most of the stuff is listed here
https://www.komando.com/coronavirus/company-freebies-coronav...
Signal Threatens to Leave the US If Earn IT Act Passes
Spoiler: it was advertent.

advert-ent indeed.

ad-vertent.
I wonder why they have such extreme numbers of ICU beds. Are they reporting them differently, e.g. disaster wards that are normally not operating unless there is a disaster are counted?

Or do they really run with a tiny fraction of beds occupied, in the years between wars and pandemics? It seems a bit wasteful to have that low usage, instead of having the capability stored for a rainy day.
SoftBank CEO Son says will supply 300M masks per month to Japan
Linux is a viable desktop OS. ReactOS is not. It's definitely going to come down to opinions, but the difference in my opinion is I am typing to you from Linux (and use only Linux, no VMs, as my desktop OS, even at work) and I don't think anyone here is typing on a daily driver running ReactOS. I don't enjoy everything about desktop Linux, but in an age where Windows 10 and macOS feel borderline hostile I don't really see much of an option. I do at least think there's a lot of interesting work going on with Linux, like NixOS and GuixSD, that are totally worth exploring.
Books Ask HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22692281
Arginine vasopressin supplements flying off the shelves yet?
Probably yes, I have spoken to a few others and they have come to the realization that most of their employees can actually work from home, pandemic or not.

I would expect that going forward there will be far more companies offering work from home gig type jobs, which will probably affect my future employment. (Of course I'm still going to keep doing my current job so who knows if or when I might be looking for a new one!)
Tech billionaire for publicity, maybe. But just getting a guide ready might help more - everybody with a moderate amount of cash and access to the medical system somewhere can start doing this in his back yard.
These questions do matter, but the answers are not as important as "Why?" Answers to such question will change as a product and company evolves. But how did they get to those answers? What strategy drives their decisions? In short, why do they use what they use, and do what they do. You should ask how they evolved to this point, what struggles they are having, and where they may be headed in the future.

Those answers will be far more insightful into who you are working with, and whether you want to work in their environment.
Many natural remedies have studies backing them up, yet the mainstream medicine outright refuses to use any kind of nstural medicine, simply because there is no money in it. You can’t make lots of money selling garlic.
How does the poor man's log10 calculator trick work?
Trump faces 'biggest decision' on re-opening economy
Link to this:

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I mean npm only has slightly more than 1 million packages, last I checked.

This doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense. Did somebody somehow just import... everything by accident? Did npm hit a bug? Is there some infinite recursion going on that eventually hits a wall?

This obviously isn't representative.
Exactly. That seems to be what happened with the chloroquine kerfuffle too, where the original paper got picked up and pushed irresponsibly in the media and policy world, but no one in the scientific community has been able to replicate it.

To some extent this is self-healing, though, in that in a giant outbreak like this someone's going to try every promising-looking technique in practice and return good data on real world results.
Vaccine skeptics think differently than other people
Asked what metrics he would use to make his judgment, he pointed at his forehead: “The metrics right here, that’s my metrics.”

It is comforting to be so reassured.
Ethernet Technology Consortium Launches 800 Gigabit Ethernet Specification
So much this. It seems to actively encourage NOT using threads. The mobile experience is somewhat better except it's a disorganized mess and I believe they force the auto rendering WYSIWYG. (Stopped updating after they told me they wouldn't support non auto rendering on mobile.)
I hesitated to go through the hassle of setting this up because I was worried such a low-end VM wouldn’t be able to handle ~10 users.

Sounds like any of the $5/month VMs from the likes of DO, Linode, etc should handle this. Luckily there is a small hoster with a data center near me with similar specs/price. Their free offering on AWS works fine but it would be nice to get lower latency and have my own domain.

Thanks for sharing!