skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best gaming experience, even in games with known/available cheats, remains LAN plan. The publishers demanding that every goddamn game have a 5v5 ranked queue/matchmaking system with lootboxes and whatever else means LAN play is a thing of yesteryear. Frankly, so are dedicated servers.

I like competitive games, or at least I did when I was younger, but nowadays I yearn for some good-ol' tribes server community where you have 32 players playing CTF and there are actual administrators who are engaged with the community. If someone becomes a problem you just ban them from your server. Similarly if someone brings a friend to your LAN party and that friend is a cheater, you uninvite your friend and/or punch the cheater.

"Cloud gaming" sounds like a hellscape.
Having recently adopted Emacs enthusiastically after years of fairly low-powered Vim use, this is what has worked for me.

- Do the built-in tutorial before anything else.

- Read through most of the manual. It's extraordinarily good despite containing a few small and usually obvious errors. You can skip things, e.g. calendaring if you're happy with your current calendar system.

- Get a friend's nontrivial init file (.emacs, init.el, etc.) or find a representative one online. Ideally use one from someone who uses Emacs for the same stuff you will, so more of it will be relevant to you. Read and understand every part of this file, copying and adapting into your own .emacs as you feel moved.

- Use the built-in help system aggressively. Don't be afraid to go on detours when an intriguing function or variable meets your eye.

- Spend some time browsing the descriptions of packages in the `list-packages' buffer to find interesting packages, and read their source code.

- Read the Intro to Elisp (note: I think I used a 3rd party alternative tutorial somewhere, not sure which one) and use the Elisp manual more as a reference. Take as much time as necessary to digest anything that seems confusing. A few things aren't super intuitive on first read, for example the precedence relationship among various keymaps. Make diagrams!

- Contribute some bugfixes and new features to packages you are using. Start small.

- Use the Emacs Wiki as a secondary resource.
I also wondered that. Even if it doesn't replicate inside a T lymphocyte could it damage it thereby weakening the immune response as a side effect?
I don't think Blind is a trustworthy source for this kind of thing. I know some companies that are actively hiring - new employees still showing up every week - but have been reported to be on a freeze.
When someone says a lens, or an optical system, resolves 2MP, it is 2MP @ 50% MTF (maximum contrast between adjacent pixels). 50% is the "good enough" of photography, but digital sensors and screens can be 100% MTF. Lenses can't do 100% but can get asymptotically near, so yes, using an "8MP" lens with 2MP sensor will show.

And, even considering 50% MTF, many professional lenses struggle to go beyond 3MP.
There's definitely a good number of people that are extremely reluctant to cede ground of any kind, including accepting criticisms of themselves.
I’m also stuck at the SVP approval since 8 days...
>I'm surprised about 1100+ comments, since this is, you know: just another phone

For as insightful as the HN crowd usually is, it's funny that we all just swarm a thread about a new phone that isn't terribly remarkable.
My story: first contact December 2005, started work October 2006.
You're off by a factor of ten; assuming 2%, that would be 6 million Americans dead, not 600k.

The death rate isn't likely to be that high (even without medical treatment), but if even a million Americans die, that's a cost of $10T to the economy right there.

You can easily why see shutting things down to prevent all those deaths is worth it.
Apple's side-by-side comparison shows that their new phone is essentially an iPhone 8 with a newer CPU.

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphone8&device...
WHO’s actions in the past few months are public and shameful. Why should we fund them if they’re not creating value for us?
It does. I’m sure most people don’t think the quality difference is worth the hassle of storing physical discs and paying for them. Compressed 1080 is good enough.
How does that happen? The way interviewing should work is that every person that interviewed you should vote, and if its unanimous that you should be hired, then some SVP a few levels up decided to veto it, I'd be livid if I was a hiring manager.
That was the case in the past several recessions. The only question is the relative mix in each company.

And then if this recession persists then more and more knives come out as people fight each other for jobs within each company. Many people behave like shit when their livelihoods are on the line. Fun times.

Also this bloodletting is happening at several levels. The VCs are performing the same decimation to their portfolio companies that companies are to their workers and vendors. Departments or groups in the company are drawing up lists.
Can I get an outline link? On mobile. I thought covid articles were non paywall
What makes you think that? I’m past team matching, HC, and VP. I’d be so disappointed to make it so far and not get the offer...
As third party observer, why this gets downvoted?

I’m genuinely asking.
Yes, those projections are that low precisely because the strict social distancing is worsening, and we are managing to keep things within the capacity of the healthcare system. Reopen everything immediately and you'd see the death toll shoot right back up into the previously estimated, much higher ranges.
Have not had this experience. I find Macs to be faster in fact as the SSDs are normally much faster than most linux machines.
In some cases this could be cover for taking more profits
Developers could run ewasm smart contracts today
> The lack of a headphone jack was always going to happen, that’s just the way of the world and nothing will change it

I just got a Galaxy s10e which has both a headphone jack and an SD card slot. I choose to purchase phones that have the things I need in a phone.

(If I were committed to the apple ecosystem, I'd get one of these new SEs because of the smaller form factor and lower price.)
Yup, he learned to fly in stringbag biplanes. An era that will never come again. My father had a long and very full life. Sounds like your grandfather did, too!
My first thought was Xilinx. I'll live.
There were Microsoft discussions in both the GH thread[0] and the NPM thread[1].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22594549
A silver bullet?
Don't flock to GitHub just yet. Is it free?
An interesting thought, how many submariners have also become astronauts? Seems translatable to me.
Which is now owned by Microsoft? :)
Does anyone have a non-paywalled mirror?
#RecallGavinNewsom
The current US death projection is 60,000 precisely because the strict social distancing is working. You sound like an anti-vaxer, arguing that measles isn't that bad and that the vaccine isn't necessary, when the vaccine is precisely the reason in the first place that measles isn't that bad!

You can't argue against measure X by using the successful results of X to say that X didn't work in the first place!
The only difference between your phrasing and the paper's is terminology.

By definition, a "bound" is a limit, i.e. a range that the outcome falls into. Saying that the time to make a decision is bounded simply means that you can always rely on it to happen within that limit.
iPhone 8: Lasts about the same as iPhone 7

iPhone SE (2nd gen): Lasts about the same as iPhone 8

Hahaha
WHO’s public actions in the last few months are far less shameful than those of the US federal government on the same issues; the latter defunding the former isn't about any shameful actions of the former, it's about distracting from those of the latter.
There’s an analogue here in the concept of shrinkflation. To my mind debasing occurs in capital purchase items that last years or for life to take advantage of the only opportunity to double dip on the single sale. Shrinkflation seems more applicable to commodity goods that are often consumable or single use, the hidden price increase of which causes larger impacts to ROI and and profitability as well as cost to the buyer. These factors combined make shrinkflation perhaps more impactful overall to the economy due to the frequency and necessity of such goods.

If you pay too much for too little on your car, oh well. Its probably too late to do anything about that now or you would have returned it to the seller already. For most people they settle for enough car for enough money. You can always add aftermarket parts or customize it, because there is a large secondary market waiting to make your outside investment even more worthwhile to your own judgement. If you pay too much for soap, it’s not even worth it to return it to the store in your time or your money so the market simply wins. It’s a rigged game akin to Las Vegas house games.

As buyers it’s just stressful being so wary all the time. I don’t know what the better way is but surely it must exist, we just haven’t made it profitable enough yet for the right people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
Yep --typo-- Thanks for pointing it out!

NCA is the National Command Authority (President as Commander-in-Chief and the SECDEF)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Command_Authority

Boomers on the mind :)
Can't, or won't? I'm betting it's the latter. Amazon refuses to say why it can't comply.

If they couldn't comply, why won't they say why? Which parts of the rules are arbitrary and difficult to comply with?
Why should anyone? Open source has always been about freedom. MS hasn't acquired the tools to my knowledge, they've acquired popular infrastructure built around tools. Anyone can still start GutBub based on the same `git` source tomorrow if they wanted.

To be sure a lot of this may be about talent as well. They may need to be liked in the community otherwise they have a hard time hiring top talent. They are buying a community since they probably couldn't build it themselves.
I am going to pursue farming. im tired of having to deal with something breaking at any point in time due to the pile after of complexities built on top of hardware, which is also built on top of more complexities. I am just tired at this point.
Do you have any recommendations on how to do that? I tried to make a gif for my project a month or two ago by capturing my terminal output in ttyrec, then using ttygif to turn it into an animated image. However, ttygif ultimately passes things off to ImageMagick convert, which would run until my computer ran out of memory and then crash.

I tried using ffmpeg to create a video instead of a gif, but I struggled getting it to correctly reproduce my colours and I couldn't figure out how to handle the occasional variation in time between frames in my capture.
We're about as confident that people gain long-lasting immunity as we are that it's a simple respiratory tract infection. It's not beyond question, but to raise the questions without mentioning that we're pretty confident in the consensus answers is either misinformed or misleading.
There's a lesson to be learned here, but I don't think that this is it.

The nuclear power training program takes about 2 years for enlisted sailors (which I was). Those two years are set up to deliberately filter out people based on their ability to endure various stressors. Academically, the most grueling stage packs a 2 year engineering technology degree into about 6 months. They start the process of flunking people out 4 weeks into this particular stage of training. Overall, roughly half of all the enlistees who start that program end up doing something else for Uncle Sam.

Even after passing through that filtering and training function, life at sea is difficult and occasionally someone cracks. I recall an incident that happened in the mess deck. Its a compact room that can't serve more than a fraction of the crew at any given time, so folks have to go through it in a pipeline. Early in the pipeline, you pick up your silverware. One day, several months into a long deployment, a sailor forgot to pick up his fork. No big deal, right? He asked his shipmate a little ways back if he could pass up a fork for him. So of course, being a tight-knit crew, the shipmate was happy to oblige. But instead of being grateful, Petty Officer Exhausted became enraged, "This is a bent fork! What the hell is wrong with you!?", jumped back in the line and proceeded to assault his buddy! Its a packed space, so several people grabbed both participants and pulled them back immediately. Nobody was injured. A Chief got involved and helped straighten out Mr. Exhausted without ending his career.

Humanity covers a pretty wide spectrum. Each of us is the the integral of all of our experiences leading up to this moment. As something of an introvert myself, I don't mind the social isolation all that much. But I can empathize with my colleagues that are having a rougher time right now. Its better to support each other through tough times than to berate each other for not being tough enough.
3% sounds optimistic.
There’s better companies IMO.
Oh, sorry. Are you referring to the fact that this is a WSJ article and it's not free to viewing? If I find a free article with similar info I'll post that.
It's fun to see someone's jaw drop when you show them what you can do with a keyboard macro, some regular expressions and a little shell integration.

More than simple fun; I've saved people from hours and sometimes days of drudgery with just a few minutes of mucking about in Emacs. Teaching someone simple automation is pretty rewarding. Even if they are not technically capable of repeating your solution, at least they go away with a problem solved AND the knowledge that there are usually better options available than drudgery.
Kubernetes-Native Testbed for the Future
Lee Holloway: Cloudflare, in its IPO filing, thanks a third co-founder
Would you be? Depends on:

1. Were you born in the fish bowl, or did someone place you in it after you grew up?

2. If the former, were you ever given a chance to leave the fishbowl and experience different life?

My hypothesis is that living things can't be depressed about stuff they are unaware of, since depression is a relative state rather than an absolute state.
If that's what you mean then fucking say it. Tarring folks who express concern over the economy with a bullshit strawman just makes you the asshole.
You know, that's what I thought too. But then I was seriously surprised when I saw 0.1% contraction during the Great recession of 2007-2009.
Maybe you don't remember BBS systems. I know a bunch of people who hosted BBS systems "in their basement", hooking up multiple phone lines (4 or more) and multiple modems connected to a C64, or an Amiga, or a PC. And yes, we were calling all over the country (and the world) to exchange software, programming tools, games, etc. The good old days.
I'm not sure why you cite Japan as an outlier regarding size preferences and smaller-than-average hand sizes, which I generally do not believe to be true and could not find any hard data to cite (source: I live there).

Regardless, the iPhone SE did not sell _as_ well in Japan due to a variety of factors, not the least of which being that the iPhone 7 introduced built-in Suica support.

Suica is a mobile cash card technology used at stations for transit, convenience stores and restaurants for purchasing, and vending machines -- among others. Given the lack of support by many credit cards for Apply Pay in Japan (for example, you cannot add a Visa card to your iPhone due to JP-specific Visa restrictions), it's no surprise that this was a major selling point of newer models.

In my opinion, manufacturers have not provided a high-end, small form factor device to sufficiently test the markets. Without doing so, it's too easy for people to make the claim that people have already voted with their wallets for larger phones. I sincerely hope the rumors of a 5.4" iPhone 12 are true (as it should be somewhere between iPhone 5 and 6 form factors, from what I gather).
My advice (and experience) is exactly the same as kabdib's (though his .emacs file is longer, and his baud rate lower, than mine). Literally the only advanced feature I use is Keyboard Macros (as dhosek mentions), but just that one feature is so useful, every other editor I've tried feels hobbled (even vi, which I used professionally for years). And no, multiple IPs doesn't do the trick at all. On the other hand, my pinky hurts.
The Seawolf class has an interesting history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawolf-class_submarine
I did not characterize your questions as absurd. I pointed out that your first two questions can be answered both "yes" and "no" with equal validity, and presented the absurd case to demonstrate why.

Did you really mean "universal" to mean every pharmacy in the world, and did you really mean "Have there been shortages" to include a single pharmacy somewhere running out? No. But how am I supposed to know what you do mean?

Your questions did not seem informed by the information in the links I presented, which suggests a different sort of bias.
thanks, will check them out!
I'd suggest this: https://github.com/banzaicloud/aws-billing-alarm

Setting up billing alarms should be part of any AWS account setup checklist. Don't wait for the bill.
That's always possible. The version I heard from a company I may or may not work for: investors watch revenue vs expenses. If you expect a downturn in revenue, you cut expenses to avoid problems.

Which apparently becomes self fulfilling.
Looks cool. How many enterprise users are using the Google Calendar web app for booking meetings? Is it significant enough?
Which RTS games did he play?
Most companies forgo notification and pay out two
months of pay. So it becomes a defacto severance. Do you know any company that actually gave notice and kept the employees on for two months?
It is easier to make a fast fortune when the economy contracts compared to when it expands, if you have prepared properly.
Australia Vaccine Trial
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-testing-to-begin-in-australia-in-coming-weeks/ar-BB12E2Xx
You might like this video on ultra fast lenses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5E7iXxeQE

At the end they compare budget lenses like the Canon 50mm f/0.95 and find that
the SLR Magic 25mm T0.95, seems to work better in low light.
Execs veto decisions lower down all the time, for good and bad reasons. If you don’t like it, get yourself promoted.
In case anyone is having issues with the paywall, https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox seems to work well for me.

(Note: I am not affiliated in any way with that extension. I'm just a happy user.)
Mirror: http://archive.is/YfPVL
No, I'm under the impression that people who did perfectly well buying loaves of bread before, and whose family@home bread consumption increases the amount of bread usage only by a moderate relative amount, are now buying loaves and months-worth of flour.

The shortage of flour, butter, TP, chips, and everything else is due to individuals' selfishness. There is certainly enough food to account for the extra meals at home, its just now very unevenly distributed.
I got a Canon Rebel SL3 recently (APS-C, not full-frame, but still...) and it can do HDR on-camera. I wish it would save each individual exposure too instead of just the composite though. It also has touch controls on the display and a REST API for remote control via wifi. And this is not that expensive a camera.
This story convinced me that I need some sort of legal document stating my desire to be euthanized if I ever reached this point. Ideally, I'd like to leave this world with an extremely high dose of a psychedelic drug. Not hooked up to machines in a hospital bed.
I second the package managers hell It just makes my life miserable when working with NodeJS or any JavaScript library, or the number of Framework libraries out there that makes every choice an endless debate.
If true then we should start with legislation to disallow platforms from mandating competitor's pricing if they also sell products in their own platform.

It seems like a good starting solution without having to go for the nuclear option.
As per the title, I don’t think now is comparable to 2009.

In 2009, the economy collapsed because of bad loans. In 2020, the economy is shutting down because we shut it down.

That’s said, our shutdown could certainly snowball into serious issues with the economy where the pre-existing economic activity doesn’t come back.
Past the edit window, but I didn't notice that autocorrect changed "pay" to "party" (which works just well enough in that sentence to be confusing, I'm sure)
What about WD Gold drives ? are they also using shingled magnetic recording
Why? Because FUD and FOMO are asymmetric risks?
I had a different experience to kabdib: customization made me able to actually use emacs productively.

I joined a company where most of the devs used emacs, so I kind of needed to adopt it too. I started with very little config and it was very hard. Because many operations were different to the GUI editors I'd used before, I had to waste 20% of my brain power to consciously do things that should be unconscious (save, cut, paste etc). This made it much harder to program!

The first step was updating the config to make emacs more similar to my old editor. For example: make it so pasting text when text is selected replaces the selection. Turn off branching undo. Install a plugin that gave me an autocomplete list of every file in my current project. Make it so that if I copy text in emacs, it appears on the OS-wide clipboard. I'm sure your list of things will be different.

Another important step was getting my emacs theme to look nice. This really made me love the program a lot more. It's silly, but there we are.

The third important step was finding things that emacs does better than other editors. For me, a big one was having a terminal inside my editor (lots of editors do this now, but back then it was rare).

Hope you end up loving emacs!
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It wasn't a depression in the sense that economic activity mostly continued, it was a deleveraging. People are overestimating the leverage in play in the current situation, other than giant public companies, there is less toxic debt, so it's more about actual economic activity (E.g. trade).
Yes, it makes sense, but it's not so simple. First, it depends on how big is a merchant. Second, you will be able to pay only part of the product price with coins. Third, it depends on how big will be the demand for these coins.
Click "View Publication", the text on the page is just some commentary by the author
Ford files trademark for EV charging network with dumbest name – Electrek
This is a cool project - however Mac and Windows only...most likely because they are creating the toolchain for this.

I would pay money to get something like this inside vscode - which is an ecosystem that works great on all platforms and provides the hooks to build something like this.

On that note, I think microsoft is making a mistake by not creating an app store of sorts for vscode. VsCode is as good a desktop developer marketplace as the play store is for mobile apps.

I wish that plotly had built this inside jupyter (where their Dash product competes against Streamlit) or vscode. Building a desktop installer toolchain from scratch, does not make sense.
My family went picnicking in a cottonwood grove and noticed all the mistletoe. So we threw rocks to knock some of it down, took it home, and put in is small bags. We kids sold it door to door and made a mint in pocket change.
Very cool. One of my formative programming experiences was learning the "hashlife" algorithm, which lets you do very large maps and zoom forward millions of iterations very quickly.

https://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/an-algorithm-for-compressing-spa...
This is a cool resource, thanks for sharing.