skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't really isolate environmental variables like you can in say in a physics experiment.

Astrophysics is kind of in the same boat. You can't really set up a proper test and control - you're forced to do what you can with the datasets that are available.
Sorry, what isn't what we see? I don't think there's a reasonable baseline at all; I think we have no idea what mortality "should" look like, in a world where everyone's under house arrest and afraid of hospitals. You can argue it's lower because people are taking less risks, higher because they're under more stress, lower because they're eating out less, higher because they don't get hospital treatment they need.
Yep! Cortex deploys load balancers on AWS and manages queueing.
You should not prematurely optimize your solution.

If you can charge your car from the sun, who cares?

It might be that a bike is more efficient, but you have more risk of accidental injury or death. It's harder on your human body for say a 5 mile commute. You will arrive at work more tired, or more sweaty, or rained on.

On the other hand, if you decide to use a bike for exercise, that might change the equation again.

(I'm not trying to argue with you, just thinking from a different viewpoint)
Enforcing purchasing quotas does not allocate resources to where they're most needed.

Pricing (including gouging) may be imperfect, but it is better than central resource allocation, price fixing, etc. at leading to efficient allocation of resources.
Can confirm, Amazon in Seattle is literally just a testing ground for people who couldn't get into Google/Apple/FB/Microsoft/etc. on the first try.

Amazon becomes their best available option, and once they work there for a year or two, improve their skills, get some experience, and get tired of dealing with hell that is working at Amazon, they get hired at all those companies they couldn't initially get into. No one says Amazon is incompetent at tech, quite the opposite. There is a lot people can learn while working there, and all those other competing tech giants know it.

I've heard of very few moves the other way around, and in every single such scenario I personally witnessed, there was a lot of very specific circumstances for the person that lead them to that point.
What Doctors on the Front Lines Wish They’d Known a Month Ago
First, good on you for trying to make a difference. Second, without painting with too broad of a brush here I would say that depending on the size of your organization this is the exact wrong layer to complain to. The VPs can be in the spot where they want to be perceived as running the show so the C levels can take care of the vision. If there was a CTO at your company that may have been the better move.

Either way, Im sorry to hear that things went south after complaining and it sounds like it just got bruised egos involved.
I think the VCs that invested the money into Neumann and Holmes are also snake oil salespeople, hoping to to dump it off on the public markets during frothy times. Is anyone supposed to believe that the smartest people educated at the finest institutions in the world don't know how to do basic due diligence before throwing their money at businesses that don't scale, yet valuing them as if they do?
What about silly?
I had absolutely worst experience at Oyo. I had an overnight flight from Delhi to SFO and went there to get a few hours of sleep but ended up shouting frequently at their unprofessional staff for making too much noise. I could not get any sleep and thought I could have been better served by just reaching the airport early instead of staying at Oyo. Just adding my feedback here to illustrate that they have absolutely no oversight to maintain the quality standards at the hotels being booked by them.
Well, I was using the USB port as a frame of reference, since obviously external size references in the game are unlikely to be consistent... to me it looks somewhere along the lines of X1 Carbon size based on that. Maybe smaller. It’d be easy to derive more from the texture.
> The best way to protest an employer is to not work for them.

Sorry but this is totally ineffectual compared to speaking out and organizing people on the job. Also quitting in protest doesn’t exactly make it easy to get the next job.
I must be missing something because I only see 37 lines and that’s a very short list. On an extremely small website’s checkout page alone we have seen ten times that.
> The US is full of outrage about companies doing unethical things but nobody wants to make unethical things illegal.

That's patently false. Plenty of people want to make those unethical things illegal, it's just that the people who engage in those unethical things have had the political power to thwart many of those efforts so far.
Generally writing systems with higher workloads to read/write lead to less native literacy rates due to people with learning disabilities not being able to get over the hump, not to mention less foreigners learning the language due to the higher barrier of entry.
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The 1970s gas lines stopped immediately after Reagan, as his first act as President, signed an Executive Order eliminating oil & gas price controls.

Literally overnight. And they never returned since.
Yes, but the con of Elizabeth Holmes was a case of blatant fraud. Obviously investors should work harder to do due-diligence that can uncover actively fraudulent behavior, but you can understand some people being caught out by it. There was very little in WeWork's model that wasn't visibly problematic on the surface.
employment is at-will, Amazon can fire people for many different reasons and you have no right to free speech whatsoever
F-Secure apparently thinks otherwise,

https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory

As does Google,

https://github.com/google/gvisor

https://github.com/google/gapid

Naturally if one is talking about specific uses cases like IoT with a couple of KBs, MISRA-C, or UNIX kernels, then yes Go is not a competitor.
>overly strict

Disclaimer: my opinions, not my company.

I worked as a project engineer for a major testing company (underwriters laboratories). This is a vast simplification, but in essence the difference between medical device testing verses say, household electronics, is that in practice household electronics get evaluated with a "safety checklist" of all the serious and common problems to that kind of device (plus additional testing if deemed necessary which is not common) that UL and industry have seen over the years.

In contrast, each and every kind medical device is torn apart and subject to a clean evaluation. There are still checklists and common issues they look out for of course, but in practice each device is considered novel while the same is not really true for more common devices.

I think the latter type of testing is fundamentally more expensive, that said I think there are tons of regulatory issues that add to cost - I just want to argue that medical device testing will probably never be cheap.
> “why can’t Kynes be a woman? Why shouldn’t Kynes be a woman?”

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Judging by the output folder structure, it was likely done with KillzX's Switch Toolbox

https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-Toolbox
I don't know anything about Wolfram's theory, but if it were me to create a graph theoretical foundation for Physics then nodes would be events, and maybe edges would be particles. Very Feynman-graph-like.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words (or two thousand bytes, as the case may be):

https://www4.cs.fau.de/Research/FAUmachine/screenshots.shtml
I might be misunderstanding, but I would expect that both BEP 39 and BEP 46 would have to be exposed to the end user in the UI, and I don't see that in qBittorrent.

For BEP 39, "Updating Torrents Via Feed URL", added torrents with `info.update-url` would hit a feed to check for updates. Does qBittorrent actually do this?

For BEP 46, "Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items", qBitorrent would have to allow adding torrents via magnet link with `?xs=urn:btpk:PUBKEY`. I tried this, and it didn't work. Is there some other way to do this?
But trauma is what increases their likelihood of committing crimes later in life, according to an excellent paper in AER (?) I recently read but can’t look up right now. :)
Go plugin for VS Code has first class support for delve (as well as Emacs) - I have been using it for more than a year!
That's what they did for me as well, but not for other people I know living in a less affluent area of California. The take-home solution is much more cost-effective, it is a wonder that it hasn't been adopted universally. Also, I LOVE my CPAP.
The belief that offices are going to get more fungible is rapidly approaching I think, the problem is the "vision" that WeWork was selling wasn't actually going to be achieved by their business plan. It reminds me of California City, California, a master planned city that few wanted to actually live in. Tack on the other "We" companies which were clearly there to create an ecosystem.

The problem I think still comes down to margins - WeWork couldn't figure out how to actually make buildings vastly more efficient.
It's almost never the right move. The CTO doesn't know you, but he does know the people who report to him.
This just raises more questions
Video shows coyotes howling in SF's North Beach
It's different enough that users will immediately complain if you get it wrong. And it means that you, as a developer who might not understand either Chinese or Japanese, now has to deal with the fallout by setting a different font in your application depending on which of the two languages it is.
This happe ed end for us in factorio, and it was super annoying, because it's really hard to spot the problem before it goes live because you A: don't know the problem exists, how would you? B: have a hard time seeing it even when you do know.
The whole poi t of Unicode is to not have to think about this crap or handle it explicitly, and this breaks that guarantee fantastically.
"Sovereign is he who decides the exception"[1]. It's a classic authoritarian/totalitarian posture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt#Political_Theolog...
Only for ASCII text. There is still no UTF-8 support (it's even called out as a non-goal in the JEP: "It is not a goal to use alternate encodings such as UTF-8 in the internal representation of strings.")
Is there any real data on how many people would NOT want to work for AWS because of how they treat their warehouse workers?
If the traffic is redirected using a reverse proxy at what point does that traffic reach the intended destination? It doesn't. It reaches the impostor destination.

In order for a MITM attack to occur the attacker must establish trust with both end points, which isn't happening in this case.
We all have to eat. Working there and exposing their problems with the credibility of being an insider has a lot of value. I’m not saying working there is necessarily moral, but capitalism requires us all to choose between various immoral choices (have you looked at how your phone is made?). The only real thing to do is try to organize to stop it imo.
Using one of the USB-A ports for scale, the base seems to be 1.2 centimeters thick-- which I guess is more than a Macbook Air, but certainly not "a tank", IMO. For reference, my 2014 Thinkpad 440p has a base thats slightly more than 2 centimeters thick, and my Minecraft FPS can corroborate that it was never much of a gaming laptop ;)
Do you think the simulation uses Neo4J or JanusGraph?
What I found was a cheap but nice shell that had a cut across the back at shoulders level. The cut was covered with a flap. It's 100% waterproof and will last forever.
How is RSS not decentralized? RSS is typically published alongside the content it is syndicating. There is no central RSS publisher. What central RSS reader there was decided to lay down and die, so there's no centralization there either.
Any chance of getting something like Frama-C officially blessed?
I think part of the problem is that the people who get into an industry to make the world a better place understand that they need to maintain long-term control of their company to achieve that goal, and see that traditional VC funding is somewhat antithetical to that objective. There's no big payout for a VC that takes a minority stake in a company that may never go public and whose goals are probably to provide low-cost services to poor people in developing countries.

If you're bright enough to change the world, you're probably wise enough to anticipate the collision of these two worlds.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-... (MIT Review: If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance)
According to experienced scientists with decades of experience and knowledge about testing blood, there were very clear problems with Theranos' claims.
COBOL, Programming, and Coding
Here is my take on part of the problem.

https://github.com/Guy-Shaw/libmmv

https://github.com/Guy-Shaw/pmmv

The original perl-rename has the expressive power, but not the safety features. mmv has been around since 1990 and, in my opinion, has always been under-appreciated, but it could use some modernization.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867627
Advertising rates are way down because less companies are paying. Ads are sold in auctions and if there is less competition for ad space, cost per view and per click naturally go down.
Whenever I come across a website which looks like its from the 90s I click a button [0] in my bookmarks bar to prettify it.

[0] https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/bookmark
Sure spoken, but both Arabic and CJK ideograms are written in far more countries in the world, with far more people, and for far longer in history than the ASCII set. The oldest surviving great works of Mathematics were written in Arabic and some of the oldest surviving great works of Poetry where written in Chinese, as just two easy and obvious examples of things worth preserving in "plain text".
Protecting your machine learning system from attack
Congrats Gavin and crew! Know y'all have been working on this for a while, it's awesome to see it coming along.
I am working in Google Play Music clone because I have exactly the same problem, I am planning to launch a close beta in a couple of weeks, If you don't mind I can send you a link to try out the beta.

By the way, no landing page for the moment, I just bought the domain yesterday(musicbucket.cloud)
I have been coding for almost a decade and I don't think I have come home any day and felt like, "oh, today I will code this!". Nope. I always leave work at work - coding, studying, learning about work. It's not really a discipline, or an attempt to keep work and life separate. I just don't feel like it.

After work it's just reading, films, walks, sports etc for me. I used to get bothered by it seeing other people code and learn tricks, tools, and paradigms at home. Thinking whether I am in the wrong profession, or I am doing it wrong. But now I have accepted it as this is who I am.
“I do not think that means what you think it means.” :-)

Fidelity: faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.
Will there ever be an OSS version of GitHub, a la Gitlab?
"This series describes a way to typeset Markdown content using the powerful typesetting engine ConTeXt."

Ok, I'm hooked.
All of this. I've been trying to maintain empathy for those suffering from lack of social contact when I feel like they are demanding sympathy while continuing to demonstrate that they never appreciated the routine suffering they expected me to accept.

A gross generalization, but definitely a common interaction I'm seeing/feeling.
The Streisand effect is when someone actively takes actions to hide information, but it backfires. I haven't seen any evidence of them taking actions to hide any information.

>I assume they want less buzz about work conditions.

I don't think this is the case. They have been public about responding to the media and have been posting daily updates through their own site. The link to their blog discussing workers' conditions is on the front page of Amazon.com.
UPS, Microsoft effort lets you donate masks to hospitals that need it
I agree there are serious problems with brainwashing on both sides. My criticism was directed leftward only because it seemed most relevant to my disagreement with the GP.
Thanks. Do you have an example of a proposal that the committee considered an undue burden for an implementation but was otherwise sound?
I wrote about a simple addition to C that could eliminate most buffer overflows:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

I.e. offering a way that arrays won't automatically decay to pointers when passed as a function parameter.
Thank you. This was a bit confusing. It helped that this was the first paragraph.

>This is my first blog, but I felt like this is something I needed to get off my chest after months. If people enjoy this blog post, I will probably do more in the future.

I'm sure this blog will probably learn a hard and fast lesson on writing thanks to your post. This can't be any easy topic to explain. You did a solid job, thank you again.
Two things: use dedicated server hardware instead of VPS or even hosted solutions. And be aware of the error bars and tweaking of consumer hardware.

You can buy editions of consumer hardware with better performance for overclocking, these generally come at a slightly higher clock and were selected to be able to handle this clock. You can use the overclocking settings in the boot menu to restrict the performance and the slimmer error bars on the selected edition of cpus to ensure a slimmer error bar on your own research. (Might differ per model and build if there are actual hardware differences https://www.windowscentral.com/amd-ryzen-which-processor-bes... ).

On servers you have a wider range of options including options for fixed power consumption and performance to ensure longer lifetimes. Seeing that most of your software will be running on servers its the metric which you should care about rather than a metric gained from benchmarking on consumer hardware. You also have much stricter error bars on server hardware.

TL;DR: Be sure to look into the error bars on performance metrics for your cpu.
Connectivity like that is common outside the Apple world. See Lenovo Thinkpads, HP Elitebooks, most gaming laptops. It's the fashion statement computers like Macbooks that have remoted ports for no good reason.
No, even in your hypothetical case, the disease still continues to infect when you lift the social distancing and the economy re-opens. That is not herd immunity.
I can't remember the last time i saw a Quanta article here that wasn't completely vacuous. The headlines are great, though! Maybe they should get the headline writers to write the articles?
You can easily create your own stdc.h include file. Something similar was done on Plan 9.

Note that by including the content of all the headers, you're increasing the chance for collisions with application identifiers. You might consider that more of a benefit than a drawback.
> Well, then maybe you should try it before you decide it doesn't work!

Based on the assumptions I called out about it, it necessarily can't work as well as a general purpose language. I intend to try it to see if my assumptions are correct or not.

> It's a nice idea to be able to have a programming language you're familiar with available to do infra work, but deploying and managing infrastructure is a totally different problem domain than writing an application.

It's not a hard domain. Developers can write a program that evaluates to YAML--it's not hard. The hard part is applying that YAML to the infrastructure in an efficient way, but programmers don't need to worry about this because Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubectl, etc do it for them.

> If the concern is letting developers that don't have much ops experience architect an infrastructure, or you have recent graduates that "don't know HCL", then you have quite a higher learning curve than you actually think you do.

"Learn Ops + HCL" is a bigger learning curve than "learn ops". Notably, learning two things at the same time is a bigger problem than learning them both individually. But you're right that using a standard programming language isn't a substitute for learning how to architect infrastructure--I never said it did--only that it removes the unnecessary complexity and unfamiliarity imposed by HCL.

> I've never once thought "I really wish I could just use TypeScript for configuring my infrastructure". If that's you, great! Call me when you hit scale and your ops team needs to refactor it.

Ha! If the industry hasn't moved past Terraform in 5 years time, it will only be because HCL has adopted enough of the general purpose programming language featureset as to remain competitive. That's certainly its trajectory.
So I just reran some tests on my existing VMs and it turns out I remembered wrong. Here's the actual break down:

* Solaris 11.4: .sun_path: 108; bind/connect path maximum: 1023. Length seems to be same as open. Interestingly, open path maximum seems to be 1023 (judged by trying ls -l /path/to/sock), although I always thought it was unbounded on Solaris.

* MacOS 10.14: .sun_path: 104, bind/connect path maximum: 253. Length can be bigger than .sun_path but less than open path limit.

* NetBSD 8.0: .sun_path: 104, bind/connect path maximum: 253. Same as MacOS.

* FreeBSD 12.0: .sun_path: 104, bind/connect path maximum: 104.

* OpenBSD 6.6: .sun_path: 104, bind/connect path maximum: 103 (104
- 1).

* Linux 5.4: .sun_path: 108, bind/connect path maximum: 108.

* AIX 7.1: .sun_path: 1023, bind/connect path maximum: 1023. Yes, .sun_path is statically sized to 1023! And like Solaris, open path maximum seems to be 1023 (as judged by trying ls -l /path/to/socket). Thanks to Polar Home, polarhome.com, for the free AIX shell account.

Note that all the above lengths are exclusive of NUL, and the passed socklen_t argument did not include a NUL terminator.

For posterity: on all these systems you can still create sockets with long paths, you just have to chdir or use bindat/connectat if available. My test code confirmed as much. And AFAICT getsockname/getpeername will only return the .sun_path path (if anything) used to bind or connect, but that's a more complex topic (see https://github.com/wahern/cqueues/blob/e3af1f63/PORTING.md#g...)
Doublespeak.
C++ is much harder than French - I'm pretty sure no human can be considered completely fluent in C++.
I’ve read through your GR part. Just to counter all the negativity here, congrats for pulling this off! I felt your papers do a much better job in explaining what’s actually the idea. Probably would be better to directly link to them here on HN. I’m a bit rusty but everything you write seems very reasonable to me. One thing I was a bit nervous about, and correct me if I’m wrong, is that you seem to somewhat artificially put in “causal invariance” by restricting all hyper graphs you consider to those that have this property. This isn’t obvious from the rule itself and it seems like it could just go wrong at one point deep into the time evolution. Are you worried about that?

Edit: Additionally the model seems very flexible. To the point that I’m unsure whether it’s surprising to be able to recover GR and other properties. I’m out of my depth here but given that string theory seems to face a similar problem of model selection have you looked at equivalences between those or does this not make sense in your eyes?
The college students who hacked the grocery store guessing game
> While Amazon tried to go into the private hosting and ci/cd market, they are not a dev tool company

When did Amazon give up?
Followup: Right on time at 14:00 Eastern I got my usual receipt email, still paying $7.99/mo as always.