skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that if you're using tarsnap there's no need to create a tarball from your mailbox (tarsnap does that for you) and there's no point encrypting your data with GPG (tarsnap encrypts your data for you too).

If you're using s3cmd to back up your mail then the "create a tarball" and "encrypt with GPG" steps are useful, of course.
Yeah I agree. In my opinion the consequences are showing now that all processor designs are suspect and likely incompatible with the very real threat models we face day to day when we browse the untrusted web.
The question is who is making sacrifices, and who will be prospering, and who will be dying.

A 2.2 trillion dollar check was just signed with the american tax payer's name on it. That is money could have gone to retirements, heath-care, and schools. It is reasonable to be concerned that it go to an equal or better purpose, and not to buy a second yachts for bankers.
A few items I've been thinking about that come to mind at the moment:
* Companies will see the benefit of WFH, and some significant portion of them will make that a long running option (performance pending), some smaller percentage will 100% make the leap

* A significant amount of individuals will demand WFH options for their current/future companies

* Companies will view the strategic vulnerability that is centralized manufacturing in China, and a large portion of companies will diversify, even at higher cost

* Assuming we get a vaccine in 12 months, vaccine development will likely take a higher percentage of medical research funding. Previous iterations of vaccines took 5+ years to make, so if the cost and effectiveness of mapping the genome so quickly have really had such a large impact, this will be a more utilized tool in our toolbelt.

* (US) Some portion of individuals will spend a long time out of the work force intentionally, due to the increase in unemployment benefits. This will drive up the effective minimum wage, and may well pave the way to a true minimum wage increase depending on how the next election goes.

* (JP) We might see a shift in work/life balance amongst the Japanese

* (Globally) I think there is a good chance that, on the other end of the, the WHO has large scale changes following investigations.

* (US) There seems to be an increasingly likely chance that the president loses support come election time, but there is also an increasingly likely chance that our elections have some degree of fraudulence to them (voter suppression for instance).

* (US) The president has already taken many large power grabs in the wake of this pandemic, removing the oversights for the 2 Trillion stimulus bill, removing supplies from states that are blue and giving them to states that are red, etc. You can argue whatever you like about this, but whatever your politics are it's abuse of power in the open. Get out and vote.
Ugh. As a former sysadmin, I've done more than plenty of permutations of this game already. Playing it again wouldn't cure boredom for me.
Seriously.

I was looking at https://www.ingramspark.com/environmental-responsibility and saw this:

> The purpose of print-on-demand book manufacturing, is to reduce our environmental impact.

That misplaced comma is already enough to make me think these folks aren't serious about books (money from books, sure, but not books.)
Shelter (rent and "owners' equivalent of rent") are included in the CPI.
You can see the impact that PHW had on his students and colleagues at his memorial website: http://memoriesofpatrickwinston.com/
Thanks. It’s a shame they couldn’t display left and right arrows if you click into the middle of the previously entered text, though.
It is academic AI.

People simply have no clue what AI actually means and think it is only about sci-fi robots and ML.
They do have limited liability companies, why would the owners be liable for loans to the company if the company goes bankrupt?
Wimbledon is a one time (well annual...) event. I doubt anyone would insure a company making billions in revenue against a pandemic -- an inevitable outcome in a lot of ways.
direct youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
I also recommend checking out the Make a Lisp project: https://github.com/kanaka/mal

You can see the source code for a small Lisp interpreter in 81 different languages.
> I think we are taking a pretty big risk

While it doesn't call out recently prepared food, the CDC disagrees:

> Coronaviruses are generally thought to be spread from person-to-person through respiratory droplets. Currently there is no evidence to support transmission of COVID-19 associated with food. Before preparing or eating food, it is important to always wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds for general food safety.

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/newsletter/food-safety-and-Co...
Corona Model with a Varying Infection Rate
Golang Cafe – Salary Insights
WordPress, What is and Why Use it
But when (if) they said those things about Obama, the Bushes, Clinton, and Reagan, those were lies like Trump's.
So you're locking yourself into an ecosystem. You have to replace everything with .NET.

Even existing things that are written in C++ or Python would have to be specifically rewritten to input and output .NET runtime objects. And why use that rather than any other object format that isn't tied to a specific vendor?
This is a totally different situation. Businesses are failing because of the government. Therefore the government should compensate them.
> $16 million is a not-unreasonable amount to save for a comfortable retirement that includes travel around the world and making sure your children get a good start to life

I agree with you. But maybe if that's what you're aiming for, you should not be in decision power over the entire country. If you're seeking out that position, it should be because you want to see the entire country as your children. Those are the people we want as leaders.

Not the selfish hoarders that currently hold the power in most countries today.
I don't think it makes sense to shoot for the least bad worst case. How about the best average case.
That study has the same weaknesses as the linked one.

It just discusses models of the spread of the virus in the air and does not measure the distance where you get minimal dose for infection.

Covid-19 infection spreads mostly with droplets and significantly less with aerosols and the dose received is important.
So...I generally agree with the idea that it is more useful to have two terms that mean something distinct than two terms that both mean a fuzzy version of the same thing. In that, despite linguistic history, or the common parlance of whatever time or place, I think "literally" is useful as a concept that should disallow it from use as a term for exaggeration. Because sometimes context does not expose "I am literally going to kill you"'s meaning, and it is useful to know if that's literal or not.

However, I think the situation you might find here is that, if you define "bricked" as a situation which is literally unrepairable, almost nothing is ever bricked. Which similarly makes it a not very useful term. Bricking would be a term exclusive to devices which have been...exposed to an intense EMP, or run through an oven. Situations which, while they may occasionally happen, happen so rarely that no one would ever use the word.
> “Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning. A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and open every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Even with such handicaps, Colonel Cargill could be relied on to run the most prosperous enterprise into the ground. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

Catch-22
> Best to compare Brownout to other strategies that get to the same end result.

Sure, the isolated period blackout (“brownout” is a bad metaphor) of the deprecated function has some obvious communicative utility compared to flag day, but once you accept shut-off for communication, it kind of immediately suggests communication methods that have a stronger guarantee of reaching the audience, like progressively frequent blackouts (or probabilistic denials) over a period of time leading to total shutoff.
Ask HN: Do you have any projects you'd like input or collaboration on?
I'm sure some of you have projects you've been working on alone and wouldn't mind some input on. Maybe you're good at algorithms, but suck at UI or the inverse? Maybe you'd just like some constructive criticism, hints or tips on how to do something?

Maybe HN can put their collective heads together during this quarantine and work together :)
Storage requires economic activity though. Storing frozen food requires an economy to generate electricity and maintain power lines. Storing dry goods requires electricity to process those goods into something useful or a fossil fuel supply chain or a wood cutting insustry.

Also, food production requires year round economic activity. Pausing for one week would mean mass starvation even if everyone had food stores.

People keep talking about disrupted supply chains but nothing could be further from the truth. Food is widely available as are all needed consumer goods. In my city, restaurant supply companies have shifted to producing direct to consumer boxes in a matter of days. I love to garden and am attempting to grow a lot of my own food because I'm a bit of a prepped, but even I can see that we are not anywhere close to a true SHTF moment. For the most part the economy is operating as normal for necessary goods. Most people can still go to the same store they always do and get everything needed or go o line and have it delivered.
If we look at inflation for consumer goods (not oil, healthcare, housing etc.) there may be another, non-fiscal policy aspect coming into play shortly.

Formerly Chinese (and sometimes subsidized I suspect) dirt cheap items might become a lot more expensive. Non stick frying pans and pool swim noodles type things. I can't believe that returns exactly to how it has been.
Similarly, the Indian state of Kerala has done it, too. They were stung by the Nipah virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/aggressive-testing-cont... or https://outline.com/bPStnx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Nipah_virus_outbreak_in_K...
Here is a summary of the main points
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-to-speak-by-pat...
The specification of YAML is about three times as long as XML 1.0, but while XML includes a whole grammar-based validator with such niceties as referential integrity of IDs and default values for omitted parameters, YAML spends all this on syntactic sugar.
Disagree. There’s no guarantee earlier government action would have eliminated the need to shut down businesses or ban gatherings. I do think more should be done to support workers. $1200 single payments are not even peanuts.
Sure, but if I own a bar, and I shut it down as part of stopping the plague, and the plague stops but I go bankrupt, you reap the benefit, not me.
Is there a mobile app for this? Currently I am "add to home screen" as an alternative. nice work:)
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11777631
I don't think the name matters. . the functional piece is someone highly adapted with KPT in their field had only T in the field of skiing. The olympics and her name are just dressing up for the story.
On their website, there is a "Fact Sheet" PDF with a 1-page business description linked at the bottom. It says:

"Target consumer: wealthy individuals with home media rooms"

Duh.

It also says the two founders were CEO of ticketmaster, and home distribution president at Warner Bros. I suppose these two would know how to price this, and who to talk to for licensing.
Love to need another $3000 machine to fix my $3000 machine
There is. https://business.gov.nl/starting-your-business/choosing-a-bu...
Now that you mentioned "flow field", I remember seeing it in a Supreme Commander AI demonstration technique. Two columns of tanks can navigate through each other seamlessly, without chaos. And in realtime. Imagine seeing this in the days of Warcraft 1, where it was common for a unit to use left hand rule across the entire map because the bridge was momentarily occupied.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHuFCnYnP9A
Does this mean that you use a monad instead of a function?
I don't know what is do if I lost access to my Gmail account. I have tons of accounts on other services that only know me by that email address.
Of course there is no guarantee that containment (the dance) will be done correctly.
Can anyone point to a longer cut of that video? Seems like they missed a pretty interesting bit at the end!
But the problems you run into would occur with any language that manages to accomplish what Java has. The fact that in addition to being used in those domains Java is also successfully used in very different ones (robotics and industrial control, formal methods, simulation and many others) -- something that was never true for, say, COBOL, which has always been a "business only" language -- only speaks to its strengths. You don't see as much technical debt in languages that haven't successfully scaled to large codebases, large teams and long lifetimes. We can't say for sure whether, say, Ruby, JS, Go, Clojure, or Haskell intrinsically scale worse, but we sure can't say they scale better. Could there be a better way to do those things than Java? Sure, but we haven't found one yet (or, at least, haven't demonstrated that we have).
Fastmail also provides syncing of contacts via CardDAV [1].

Works great with iOS and MacOS out of the box, never had issues with it.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/servernamesandports....
I agree. Even after approving the camera and mic, the way it was presented makes it seem like the camera is only going to be used for controlling the emoji. But that isn't the case, the camera video is shown to other people.

I feel like there shouldn't be a #public room. It is basically Chatroulette.
Heck, I do that with my personal laptop. Feeling pretty happy having read these comments that I never took the leap to Catalina.

I feel pretty sure this must be common because I still see apps and infrastructure, even last month, coming out with updates related to Catalina compatibility.

It sucks though. I have a Google Pixel phone and never hesitate to apply updates, I even look forward to them. I don't think I've ever had an Android phone experience the sort of severe regressions that occur regularly with Apple updates.

I've been a MBP user for a long time, but I'm really starting to wonder if it's time to take a leap soon. I've been using this laptop for maybe a year and:

1. I'm scared to upgrade to the latest OS

2. The screen's coating has been damaged and has key-print impressions on it. This always happens and Apple seem incapable of fixing it.

3. The latest butterfly keyboard has at least not broken on me for 8 months or so, but the options, C and A keys have worn through and now have holes in them. This started happening a few generations ago and now seems like a regular problem that I'm just supposed to accept.

4. Very soon after getting it something happened to the metal such that it has a large discolouration on the bottom left, of a type I've never seen before. Nothing seems to fix it.

5. The screen routinely gets a yellow splotch in one of the corners if the laptop has been in my backpack for a while.

The problem is that despite not even really having improved for years, macOS is probably still the best OS out there. Linux on laptops has never worked well - my colleagues who try to use it routinely have issues with webcams not working properly. Windows laptops seem to vary wildly in quality and many of them have stupid design flaws like putting the webcam at the bottom of the screen instead of the top, coming loaded with crapware, anti-virus products that cripple performance, Windows is still a rats nest of weird problems under the hood. And their way to make it better for developers is to just bundle Linux?

I really wish there was more competition in the laptops-for-technical-people space.
Here's a valuable tip for making a compiler/interpreter: don't use a separate lexer and parser like lex and yacc. Parser combinators (also known as parser monads) are so much easier to use. In fact, if you already have decided upon your language's grammar, you can probably write yourself a parser and lexer with a parser combinator inside a day.
No, it’s not possible to use a FileVault recovery key at this stage of repair.

It’s not failure, it’s secure by design to prevent attackers/governments from stealing your files without consent.

Under DFU brick and reset circumstances, the private key is gone, because otherwise an attacker could just upload a hacked firmware via DFU and access all your files.

I assume the installer uses a different process that performs a DFU upgrade-in-place that safely manages the handoff using signed code and such, but that’s not the process we get as a last restore described above.

If you don’t have off-device backups, you’re accepting the risk of losing all your data at any time due to any number of possible failures (software and hardware). Not much use getting upset about this specific case.
Consider a plan B, like, run Linux on off-the-shelf hardware.
Nah, Slackware install was pretty fast. Although it did install a ton of packages and removing the extra cruft is a pain in the ass without a decent package manager that handles dependencies.
People are paid more because demand for workers is greater than supply and there is a somewhat functioning market not because of what’s fair or nice the argument is just silly.
Would you prefer to hunter-gather?
Bring Your Own Video Chat with Jitsi
How can individuals meaningfully practice carbon capture at home?
Hoping you read this ... can you get in touch with me please? Contact email is in my profile ... thanks.
Nimporter 1.0 released (seamlessly import Nim code from Python)
A life spent cowering is hardly a life worth living, do you want to live forever?
They don't support custom domains (https://posteo.de/en/site/faq).
I think the future is a series of online courses that have objective pass-fail, and somebody with recognized authority to issue degrees in X if you pass X's set of courses. And it's cheap - maybe $100 per class. And there's different classes competing to be in the set for X, and there's competing outfits with the authority to issue degrees.
Thanks! I've only added in a map for London at the moment but will be sure to add different places soon! I've actually also made it open source too at https://github.com/souramoo/party - it uses standard ecmascript and webpack for the client, nodejs for the backend hosted on heroku and webrtc peer-to-peer for video :)
Indeed. The elephant in the room that this post missed is that email was created by researchers, not corporations. Today, a huge swath of computer science progress is created by corporations. We're making great strides in areas which can easily be monetized.

Email really isn't one of those. Worse, there are a lot of almost-email areas which are (Slack, Facetime, etc), which makes it nearly impossible for non-commercial entities to produce a viable alternative. You're fighting network effects and deep pockets.

There are a lot of areas of computing that we take for granted today which were only created because they didn't need a corporation to find a way to be profitable. When big companies get together and try to produce the OS of the future, we get Multics and Taligent and OS/360. When individuals scavenge old cheap hardware to play around with for their own personal use, we get Unix and Linux and the Apple II.
Yes: You can export a FileVault recovery key when enabling FileVault, whether on a T2 Mac or not.

No: There’s no opportunity to use FileVault recovery keys when you’re doing a DFU on a T2 Mac. If you have to DFU, your data is lost.

(edited to clarify per reply)
I wonder about cars.

There are cheaper new cars...but people seem to choose cars with an ever inflating numbers of features.
I have a mouse and keyboard attached to my 2015 MBP....and I still reach for that track pad. I really need to replace my mouse with their Magic Trackpad. It's just that good.
But if the government picks winners, they might pick the wrong millionaires, instead of "all millionaires".
Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 (2018)
Hasn't got the style guide yet: https://shop.economist.com/products/the-economist-style-guid...
True, to your first part. Question is, how did the bat come to be where it was.

The flip side of being able to draw lines to climate change is that there’s a reason you can draw lines to it, namely the underlying reality that it touches just about everything, meaning it could in fact be playing a role.

Obviously it’s not conclusive though.

This may turn out to be one of the recurring themes of climate change linked problems: they are linkable in theory, but in practice it’s hard to be conclusive. With this theme continuing on for the next few centuries of human history as more problems emerge.
This is something I put together 5 years ago:

https://github.com/kapilkaisare/game-of-life
I'm pretty bad at front-end but last few days I've been playing around with d3js and I've done a new section of my Golang Cafe job board - Salary Insights https://golang.cafe/Golang-Developer-Salary-USA it's open source too https://github.com/golang-cafe/golang.cafe
I remember peeing in a soda cup at the drive-in as a kid. Good times.
s/artist/adjust/
I tried with my camera shutter closed and it didn't work at all. Just said "waiting to detect your face" with a smiley-face.

Very creepy.
That's not a fundamental issue though. Chrome pushes new features every six weeks. Android updates every year and doesn't suffer these kinds of problems.

You absolutely can do regular updates that are high quality. You just can't do them in an environment that's deadline driven, or which gives PMs too much power over what dev teams work on.
This is upside down.

Storing several years of food is hugely expensive and a waste of resources. Companies should not be stocking capital and supplies for 1 in 100 years Black Swans.

We could end up in a several years long pandemic or war. Should every family have a bunker, 5 years of non-perishables, weapons, bio gear, medicine, generator, generator parts etc?

It's much more efficient to have a smart restructuring program for when calamity hits and to smartly reallocate resources, capital for the new re-alignment.

Because of the system-wide effects, we are facing - even insurance is not the best product.

The 'moral hazard' is not in the bailouts themselves, but the terms of them and how exactly the bailouts are enacted.

For system-wide events that are impossible to predict, what we need is dynamic leadership (policy, action, financing).

Some parts of the system need more resiliency than others which is why we have regulations, strategic investment, reserves. And after this event those will be adjusted as well hopefully.
If it happens once every 20 years then the money earned by investing 20 years of premiums just have to pay for it. Alternatively the company could spend 20 years socking away money instead of issuing large bonuses.
Well... in this situation, individuals are also going to be failing because of the government. Therefore...