skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you referring to this passage?

2. Introducing noise to drive the device out of its metastable state.The noise can be considered to be just an unpredictable input.The introduction of noise cannot eliminate the possibility of the device hanging up for an arbitrarily long time, but can make it impossible
to predict which inputs will cause it to do so.

While I do not disagree, introducing noise changes the issue from being stuck forever on a single decision, to being a series of decision points (each time the noise signal changes), with the chain being broken as soon as one results in a definite outcome. In practice, this allows us to engineer the risk of being stuck, for longer than some specified period, to an arbitrarily small probability - at the cost of a small loss of precision, and possibly much greater complexity in modeling the device.
I used to be a demoscener, and watching other do amazing things is what inspired me to learn computer graphics and write my own demos. It was not only that, it was the amazing people that took the time to teach me and encouraged me to do better. Still nowadays that same spirit of being amazed by tech and willing to replicate what I find fascinating is still burning in me, I hope I will stay this way for many years. Thanks Demosceners!
>Of the 211 women without symptoms, all were afebrile on admission. Nasopharyngeal swabs were obtained from 210 of the 211 women (99.5%) who did not have symptoms of Covid-19; of these women, 29 (13.7%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2. Thus, 29 of the 33 patients who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 at admission (87.9%) had no symptoms of Covid-19 at presentation.
For bean counters looking to cut costs, outsourcing to India is going to look pretty attractive. Especially since the actual costs of doing this will only become apparent later...
What a folly!
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Interesting hypotheses, though I still can't quite accept them as final. I seem to recall that the effect was much more noticeable, not only when sitting in front of the screen—basically enter the room and there it is. And I think that I've experimented with lower refresh rates too, at least I definitely had the time and inclination—but can't remember if the monitor allowed them with the available resolutions. It's stuck in my memory that only 60 Hz does this.

When I get rich and have lots of free time, I'll probably buy a bunch of old CRTs just to dig to the roots of this.
Then maybe we need to re-evaluate the idea that farms need to be making profit over distributing food. I mean, farms already receive massive subsidies from the government in order to operate. We just had a round of farm bailouts because they couldn’t sell their food to international markets. Now they are throwing food away because they can’t sell it locally. Meanwhile there are lines stretching miles long with people waiting for food. Perhaps for-profit food production should not be a goal for a society.
My favorite is simply using a tool to create a C file with your binary data:

static uint8_t mydata[] = {0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, ... };

The advantage is that it works anywhere, with any compiler.

The disadvantage is that it can increase compile time. I would limit each .c file to 10MB; it seems there's a quadratic increase in build time with file size, at least with gcc.

Also, instead of "0x%02x" I use decimal notation and no spaces in order to decrease the .c file size:

static uint8_t mydata[] = {
42,7,105,0,0,...,
8,0,1,20,...,
...,
};
I never said that we should ban trade with China or impose sanctions. I don't see how that's relevant.
Seriously, are there other instances/events or just this one?

All news sources have their failures, some are consistently bad, is Rolling Stone in the consistently bad category?
Org-mode and other text files have the problem that they can only present content in a linear way. Which is fine in a lot of cases and for text documents, but can't hold a candle to a simple Kanban board where you have everything at a glance and nicely structured without scrolling back and forth all the time.

I use org-mode files every day and it's a limitation I feel more and more.
“What is the point of an industry that is often one of the most profitable if it falls short when we need it most?”

I think people are asking that question already?
That seems to be for one-in-a-while use case only.
The parent poster mentioned that they backs up their google data. So I am assuming some kind of regular backup. I find that hard to do with gmail. And as I understand it will soon be impossible due to their updated API/authentication?
You may want to checkout the CMRC library (CMake Resource Compiler) [0].

[0]: https://github.com/vector-of-bool/cmrc
Are you suggesting this should be a regular thing? I get that maybe some aspects of your personal experience are better. I don't like shaking hands either and wish we bowed like some East Asians.

But your words feel like they don't truly understand the ramifications of the life and death struggles going on in hospitals, or that the vast majority of human beings that are not you, evolved to need a good amount of social interaction.

This is not normal and should never ever considered being any type of normal. We can deal with the fatalities, and it is tragic, but the long term effects on society and the erosion of our rights and civil liberties will take decades to recover from.

This is not a time of honor.
22MM total out of 157MM working Americans ~14%. More lost than have been added since 2008. Does anyone have a good idea about the actual prospects of a V shaped recovery?
Can I ask a stupid question?' I kind of did a Rip Van Winkle and stopped reading Techcrunch for eight years. Back in the day I would email Alexia and she would take the story tip and write a cool article. Is TC 100% pay to play nowadays? I know so many people who submit press releases to them and they get auto-deleted. What gives?
The problem is, that there are enough buildings in other places than Afghan desert and containers make no sense at all. One can find many empty government buildings in every city. From offices left days ago, empty schools to not yet finished hospitals or empty exhibition halls.
I could be wrong, but, a quick Googling / wiki shows clang is from 2007, whilst facebook was founded 2004, and even though clang was available in 2007, it takes years before people consider using newer tools like clang over proven technology, especially in the C space.
Can you expand a bit more on this, how can they let go without severance? How big was the loss? Was it contractors?

I'm in the final stages interviews and up until now have generally been looking forward to the prospect of working there. This is troubling. Thanks in advance.
Learn In thinks a solution to layoffs is more sabbaticals
Microsoft planner is pretty great if you have access to it. You can create cards on a Kanban board but also schedule them and see a calendar and a Gantt chart view of your projects.
I believe s.98(1)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 [1] allows dismissal for "some other substantial reason" which could be argued to cover this scenario and there is some case law such as Garside and Laycock Ltd v Booth [2]

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/98
[2] https://www.bto.co.uk/blog/refusing-to-accept-a-wage-cut-%E2...
More like.. Closeddoor. (•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■)
Yes, that’s good advice. I was referring to the concept of gitignore in general. At least when I learnt git from some tutorials, gitignore was treated like an advanced topic and I was fumbling with git for a while with all these artefacts creeping into my repo until I learnt of this simple solution
> Yet outside of Scotland dresses are not considered an appropriate for men and nobody even dares to use them.

This may be true of most modern western cultures, but is quite wrong in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_skirts
>You don't get government unemployment benefits in the UK if you have >16k in savings

This isn't true. You'll get new style JSA for 6 months [1] pending you have contributed NI for the past 2/3 years which almost all will have.

https://www.gov.uk/jobseekers-allowance/eligibility

You're talking about universal credit which yes you won't qualify for with greater than 16k savings (pension savings or HTB ISA are however are excluded).
I don’t feel for them much - after all this time having it their way and forcing us into commutes, events, team lunches (who decided this was a reward for gods sake), Christmas parties, meetings, standups and more without a thought for our mental health, surely they can deal with it our way for a while!
That’s right, but in Germany you could go to the woods with somebody and it still would be totally fine.

Edit: fellow salesmen still thrive during pandemic on the phone. Looks like their luxury cars and weekly meetings at the client’s location are not needed at the end. These were extreme extroverts talking without a break.
The value of a paper is the peer review by experts.
It's kind of funny that you mention "only cgi" as a drawback on an article discussing "edge workers" - not sure if they're like "serverless functions" (new vm pr request) - but I'm assuming they're heavier than "just" new process pr request :)
Gitlab also has kanban boards, which I really like. Sometimes I wish I could just use the kanban boards to manage tasks, without having all the associated software development tools in the UI.

Or maybe, a better idea would be the ability to log in straight to the boards, without having to navigate via projects etc.
Really? I'd argue that if any number of comments on HN bog down your phone, there's something wrong with it. The Axx processors even have JavaScript-specific instructions to accelerate web apps. iOS does not have swap. Compare the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark results between an iPhone 11 and a Pixel 4 in the middle of this page: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/22/iphone-11-versus-...

There, the difference between the iPhone and Pixel is about 3x on that particular JavaScript and web benchmark.
thanks for the notice (my typing habit is such that I often don't press the keys hard enough which results in missing letters - easy to see thanks to the spellcheckers when a normal word is misspelled, not so hard for personal names though). Typo fixed
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This reminds me of the original Dungeon Siege. My friends and I always played on password protected servers hosted by one of us because there were so many cheaters out there and we wanted to feel like we'd earned our levels and equipment.

Sometimes we forgot to set a password and invariably some max level character would join and kill absolutely everything, then offer us cool items with impossible stats they'd "found". I never understood the appeal.

I actually had printed out a big stack of papers describing all the prefixes and suffixes in the game along with on which item types they could appear without cheating. Most of the time I didn't need to consult it since most cheaters would offer you the same item: "of Agony Ring of Agony".
Oh, that's exactly what I was looking for. Most kanban software is centered around multiple users and all the cumbersome setup that comes with that assumption.
Apple fined $1.2B in France for running a cartel
There's not the 24H grind with programming to a deadline. There can be long days, especially when preparing for a court appearance or a trial, and law firms notoriously work their associates very long hours to cover their significant pay checks. Attorneys at firms bill by the hour, so there's an incentive to work lots and lots of hours to be at the top law firms - but there are lots of more human jobs at companies as in-house counsel, or with the government or with a non profit or NGO.
We need some awareness of categories here. You are in a particular category where that feeling is an option.

I am in the category where my spouse and I retained our jobs, but lost childcare. These weeks are a nightmare, but I am fortunate.

More urban co-workers of mine do not have the option of outdoors. I am time-crunched and frustrated, but have plenty of sunshine.

Neighbors of mine in health care have to do intense shift work with COVID patients. Some retained child care options, but some didn't, and if they did, anxiety about it exists.

Many many more people out there have the terrible misfortune of too much time and unsteady finances. I feel the most sorry for these people.
>with people walking with fake dogs

How do you fake a dog? Do you dress a cat up in a dog costume, hire someone to dress up in a dog costume, or something else?
I thought of https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
I certainly can’t live like this. Humans are social creatures.
To me the Nikon f/2 lens is crazier, a practical for normal uses version of that lens while only losing 1/3 stop of brightness
The secret behind “unkillable” Android backdoor called xHelper has been revealed
Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro (Keyboard Layout Comparison)
Being brought back to do another interview is not a good sign at Google. Best case is your interviewers totally forgot to cover something important, but more commonly it means somebody has serious doubts about something and they need to check it again.
> future is now

skynet is near
Nonsense Getting Started with Reason and ReasonReact
http://www.swilliams.io

Just an assortment of varied stuff I've delved into. Mostly all tech. All short and sweet (hopefully).
It’s strange to me that their remediation did not include distributing these systems to be redundant across multiple datacenters, maybe with a globally distributed database.

> we knew that the failback from disaster recovery would be very complex

The disaster recovery failover to a second data center (and failback) should not force a choice to failover or not. They should be able to immediately failover and the system should self-heal once the original data center was back online.
Thanks for the recommendation re: Geary! I've been wanting to trial desktop email clients for awhile now and Thunderbird just doesn't have the polish I've come to expect.

Gmail, et al., have become so bloated in recent years.
> We need to flood the world with so many masks that you get one for free every time you walk into a store. Figure that out soon and this economy will rebound.

I'm pro-mask, but masks are but a small part of what it will take for the economy to rebound. Far more important are tests (short-term), treatments (mid-term), and vaccines (longer-term). For now, tests are the most important goal. We should have reliable diagnostic testing available in every doctors office, and reliable serological tests in every home.
EU lawmakers set out guidance for coronavirus contacts tracing apps
As you age, you just can't bring the same focus and stamina to bear on a project - which is ok, because experience, wisdom, and efficiency can actually make things easier.
There's a very strict set of people that prescriptions are given to - i.e. not a routine treatment for viruses like this.

There's a reason it's not licensed for viruses, and why only a tiny number of people take it, and there's a reason why wide scale trials are being cancelled. There isn't a huge anti-hydroxychloroquine conspiracy here
Note: you get previews of the various layouts depending on size (11" vs 12.9") and language selected in the drop down menu.

Unfortunately this does not show top-down views for "US English"
Cathie Wood explains why innovation gains market share during crisis
I wear a jacket with big inside pockets. Works like a charm, frees up pocket space in the pants and I get to carry everything. Been doing that for years now. Way-too-big phones became uncomfortable when sitting in a car or other tight spaces a long time ago.
I imagine the finishing in quality is due partly to choosing a more aggressive trade-off on monetization, and partly on typical "large scale enterprise" inefficiencies
Apple fined again - but it's going to appeal because they thought the law allowed such dodgy practices.

Who'd have guessed that fixing prices with other companies to abuse your market dominance wasn't a proper way to run your company?
I've just google image searched for the Spitalfields Market, apparently people in here believe that plums and avocado grow just outside of London (because that's what I saw in those photos).

What I'm saying is that London cannot compete with countries/provinces where plums or what have you grow just a 15-min van drive away from said restaurants, and as such calling a city like London "the food capital of Europe" is a joke. Anyway, also calling Napoli the "food capital of Europe is a joke" because of its size and population density, I can assure you that a 2- or 3-hour drive to the South can get you to some random Calabria small town with way better food than you can get in most of Napoli.

But the food-mania is high with many people who think that just because a place happens to have money it also has good food.
If you made it to the full slate of interviews, you're already in the 1% of top applicants. If you made it through to hiring committee submission as well, you were very close to getting hired (they don't even try otherwise) and they're serious if they suggest you try again later.
I have no problems slipping it into my pocket. But if you have tighter pants or smaller pockets I could understand that complaint.

It actually makes the phone sit more flat on the desk. Without it, the camera bump makes the phone wobble (I don’t use a case).

Plus, it stops the phone from being scratched by being placed or slid across a horizontal surface.

Like I said, try it before you knock it. It’s only a $10 investment and they probably take returns.
Netflix Stock Closes at All-Time High
More like an extended W...???
Characteristics of US Health Care Personnel with Covid-19 Feb. 12–April 9, 2020
You can slice it and freeze it. Even when I make it myself, I don't go through enough bread (and don't want to) to make it more than once a week or so. So, in my case, it's definitely not about baking fresh bread every day or two.
There is no cure or treatment for covid-19. The standard of care for home patients are: stay home, self isolate from other members of the household, drink lots of fluids, do-or-don't-take-these-several-kinds-of-otc-meds (conflicting findings about anti-inflammatory drugs), etc. and let your body heal itself, or die.

At the hospital, they have additional equipment: the ability to isolate you so you don't infect anyone else, provide oxygen at a higher purity and rate, various drugs and techniques to facilitate your body to heal itself (for ex. medically induced coma), and the ventilator and ecmo's which take over certain body functions so your damaged organs don't have to (ie mechanical lung, mechanical kidney (dialysis), mechanical heart, etc).

None of those items are cures. Novel coronavirus means New to human biology - no body, including evolution, has seen this before and no, we don't have a cure.

Going to the hospital means there are no other options other than to put you on extraordinary measures - of course it means that you might not recover.

Again, there is no cure at the moment, no pill you can take to get better. [edit: the exception is if you get into one of those drug trials at a hospital that is offering experimental treatments - it could be worth it - since you'd be offering your body to science to fight this virus. Pasteur had to infect himself in order to test his vaccines, many of those on experimental trials are just like him - bravely trying things out to see if they work.]

Stay at home everyone, so we can properly investigate.

In IT outage terms, this is the time when all systems are down, and the incident commander is going "I know that all the database servers are down," "no I don't know why," and "could you please stop issuing extraneous replication requests to the master server?? issuing replication right now is no use because the master server is just not there."
I switched to doom from spacemacs and quite happy with it. Lot more easier to tweak that spacemacs.
Function over form in this case.

You can also get them in colors that closely match your phone so they’re less conspicuous. The black aluminum one goes very well with the space grey iPhone.

Mine is custom and has a picture of my cat on it.
I don’t get how they would “force you with them.” Nobody cares if you choose to self isolate. If you like this there’s no reason you ever need to go back. For many people there has been no change and will be no change, if things ever do reopen completely.
I really like this, and after reading about the guy who lost his personal trello to his former employer...I am motivated to try this.
Show HN: Open – Free React landing page template
I'm fine to tweak some Elisp code but not fully enjoy it as Scheme or Common Lisp. It's really an awkward language despite the fact it's a Lisp, and I really like Lisp.

Oh, how I wish it would be completely re-written with other dialects... Although there are many attempts, they are far from polished compared to Emacs itself.
The bonus might not have been paid until this month though, the start of the new financial year
Next: Microsoft Basic
More like WWWL ?

Dead cat bounce and then stagflation?
What one values in life is the basis of mental health, unless one has a physical pathology (e.g. depression).

Congratulations on your success. There is a significant part of the world population that refuse to learn how to look at the world as appreciatively as we do. The struggles my wife and I have faced throughout our lives give us the foundation for the joy and inner peace we feel in our lives.

I know there will be a lot of people that are suffering during this through no fault of their own, and I hope they persevere and that they reach out to their communities for caring help, and that they receive it.

But a significant percent of us in the wealthier countries of the world are simply having to adjust to not being able to trod all over the world giving fuck-all about anyone else. I say it's well and truly time for them to appreciate their grocery clerks and hospital orderlies and realize that all people are valuable and that the more they struggle in life, the more we should help.

Personally, I'm very happy with the improvement in air quality from the reduction in society's busyness. Endless growth of GDP was always setting us up for disaster; this seems like a kindof gentle way (if brutally abrupt) to slow down our economies, but we'll see how/if/when we come out of the other side.
> Suburbia? Is there anything else for a radius of 50-60 km?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Green_Belt

You can also hit the sea in that distance from London.
Writing Accessible Web Components
Hmm, I can get a 4 layer board the same size as the a500 motherboard in quantities of 5 in 2 weeks for £100 delivered, European suppliers seem to be nearly that for a single board even with prototype specials?

It may be useful for smaller pcb's and a fast turnaround, but given everything at the moment, is anyone really in a rush?
This was a higher-effort post than I had expected.

The Game of Life implementation pushes itself into my Back-button browser history, which is rather annoying, but it was very cool to see some COBOL besides the obligatory Hello World.

I hardly think anyone maintaining crusty old systems will be allowed to move to Cloudflare Workers, but it is rather amazing and funny to see that it could technically now be done.

Great job and great post!
Got it. That is really neat, going to add to my bag of tricks...