skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me a lot about the Geneva convention and how the rules of war very quickly got tossed aside during WW2.

If you compare say the Battle of River Plate (1939) vs. say the North Atlantic convoy run or the siege of malta (1942), there's a dramatic difference in how war was conducted and the types of weapon systems that were most effective. River Plate was almost gentlemanly: while commerce-raiding, the Graf Spee would first hail the merchantmen she was taking prisoner, identify them as belligerents, give them the opportunity to surrender, and then take crews on board before sinking them. When she was engaged and damaged, the ship took refuge in Montevideo, released the prisoners, and then there was elaborate diplomatic maneuvering to avoid violating Uruguayan neutrality. The ship was scuttled without further loss of life - other than Captain Langsdorff, who committed suicide. Several of his British adversaries attended the funeral.

By 1942, nobody cared about any of that. The most effective weapons were submarines and aircraft, and they shot to kill on sight.

We're at peace right now, despite a state of perpetual war that mostly exists for propaganda and business purposes. If it ever came to an existential conflict, human judgment would likely become a liability. Humans generally don't want to kill; in a state of total warfare that hesitation could be lethal.
Hmm interesting insights shown here. Especially comparing the curve of China, US, Italy and Spain...
Interestingly, a decade later, both Tad William's Otherland (1996), and Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash (1992) described networked virtual realities which everyday normal people had access to, but they were referred to as "Ken and Barbies" or similar. Their use of off-the-shelf avatars and no custom software gave them away. And the Techno-elites still had their own spaces within these worlds that were either off-limits or hard to find.
crypto/x509: use Security.framework without cgo for roots on macOS
I'm sure GitHub lands a lot more Enterprise customers compared to Gitlab, but for individual users who use organizations to have a separation in repos, and smaller teams, this price change is very convincing to move to GitHub even for teams, now that private repos are free.
I believe most of these theories essentially suggest that the error correction required to produce a precise and reliable answer from more qubits, will grow faster than the computing power added by those qubits.

> no classical theory can explain quantum mechanics."

Not sure I can agree with 't Hooft on this. A GR-based theory with closed timelike curves can easily have particles travelling through time to interfere with themselves, and thus reproduce the quantum phenomena like the double-slit experiment. There's been some work on this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1gjekn/the_logic_o...
Doubt it, people in need of ventilators would clearly fall under Covid19 mortality, not all cause mortality. Also it seems that people who are put on ventilators are pretty much goners anyway.
Isn't it amazing that an absolutely massive privacy invasion that is called contact tracing is already accepted as _inevitable_ if we are ever to be allowed to step out of our homes?

Talk about cynicism.
Tell that to

mov DWORD PTR [rsp - 8], 2
SyntagNet, a resource with 88,000 lexical-semantic combinations, is now out
The vast majority of patients take months or longer to get acclimated to the machine

Sounds like your experience is with much older machines. Is that reasonable to say?
I don't really understand your comment. This is more of a "vision" doc that sets a framework and principles on what the plan will look like. The next iteration will be a more detailed plan. It is fairly typical of tech product work, where you create your vision statement and then create a more detailed plan
A Glimpse of a Better Future
Rather than trying to decide whether to require that all implementations must use two's-complement math, or suggest that all programs should support unusual formats, the Standard should recognize some categories of implementations with various recommended traits, and programs that are portable among such implementations, but also recognize categories of "unusual" implementations.

Recognizing common behavioral characteristics would actually improve the usability of arcane hardware platforms if there were ways of explicitly requesting the commonplace semantics when required. For example, if the Standard defined an intrinsic which, given a pointer that is four-byte aligned, would store a 32-bit value with 8 bits per byte little-endian format, leaving the any bits beyond the eighth (if any) in a state which would be compatible with using "fwrite" to an octet-based stream, an octet-based big-endian platform could easily process that intrinsic as a byte-swap instruction followed by a 32-bit store, while a compiler for a 36-bit system could use a combination of addition and masking operations to spread out the bits.
Sounds like that person has been drinking the kool-aid. Believe in what? For those people they would support all policies for the greater company good.
But I'm not saying we shouldn't engage, I'm just pointing out that the catalog of lil pictures is the easy part of the task.

One way I put it is, imagine if one of the first-class outputs of the Unicode Consortium was standard libraries for different human languages for different computer languages.
Paul Graham has an interesting take on the idea that the strong Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis applies to programming languages, though its not exactly phrased that way: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

I tend to agree with your hypothesis: firstly, I don't think that the strong form of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis holds for natural languages [0], which sets the bar pretty low for PLs. And secondly, the SWH does (seem to) hold for programming languages: the cognitive tools and abstractions reached for by users of language A can be very different from those reached for by users of language B. Lisp users, Haskell users, C users, Forth users, etc all seem to think about problems differently. It would be interesting to see some empirical work on this.

[0] Almost all post-Chomsky linguists agree with this, but there are a few that have tried to argue that you can kind of bend the strong form to make it fit some empirical results; see the color word research of Paul Kay for example -- http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/Kay&Kempton.1984.pdf
The crux of capitalism, what will you compromise for revenue.
That's the point though, ownership and exposure to China's influence. Is Apple in a position where they can't say no to China? If not, should I trust their product?
More than eliminating latency I guess is done to eliminate latency variance, which is inherent in the relatively unpredictable behaviour of caches, and is required to characterize worst case scheduling of realtime systems.
Knot means nautical mile per hour. It’s not a short way to say “nautical mile”.
This sounds ideal but in my opinion is far from reality.
I don't think Europe is doing particularly well either. Well, at least France where I live.

France is going to release lockdown in a month. My impression is that this is mostly for economical reasons because it was unsustainable. I'm not confident we'll deal with the epidemics much better this time. The gvt still hasn't released their roadmap, but they hope to improve their testing capacity, the availability of masks, and to enable contact tracing using some hypothetical app. There's no silver bullet, but we just hope that it'll work, otherwise we'll have to go into lockdown again (or not if it appears too costly). Our gvt hasn't communicated clearly on the possible outcomes. The president speech was mostly unsatisfying politician rhetoric, trying to avoid the fact that they didn't anticipate the crisis, and that they had no satisfactory solutions.
He also published The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth after this page was made (apologies if I overlooked the reference.) It’s about a more successful project, a Japanese college campus. The difficulties he faced were very interesting, especially from bureaucratic insistence on going over budget (Alexander advocates realistic cost discipline as necessary to humane design.)
Unless I'm misinterpreting the data I don't understand what he finds surprising. He compares pneumonia and influenza deaths from last year to this year and finds they are less this year. Also, important to note that it is across 13 weeks so presumably includes weeks where we weren't effected by coronavirus.

But
1) all things being equal you would expect less pneumonia and influenza deaths when people are dying of corona virus instead
2) i don't think the number of deaths from pneumonia and influenza is a constant and it being higher or lower between years is not surprising.

I guess he assumes the influenza and pneumonia deaths is meant to include covid deaths. Then I guess it makes sense but it would be helpful if there was something in his PDF making this claim and backing up this claim.
I'm in favor of a bailout, but only if mail is substantially reworked to prevent the unbelievable flood of tree-killing paper spam I get deluged with.

It absolutely depresses me to think of how many hundreds of millions of mailboxes are filled on a daily basis with unneeded paper mailings.

We need some way of imposing additional costs on mail marketing, such as required payments to people if mail arrives at their mailbox. It is mentally taxing to sift through crap mail searching for relevance.

The USPS also needs to establish some sort of official email for people with similar spam suppression requirements, so that legal or official government messaging has an appropriate destination besides "kill tree, send mail".

In the 1990s I worked on a USPS project, and the sheer size of bulk mail processing (aka junk mail) in facilities was probably 100x what the mail processing for personal letters was.
I'm very tempted to argue that in any successful plan, a pretty small minority of the population would be symptomatic at any given time. And the above article has me convinced we should be testing asymptomatic people on a very wide scale in order to get the economy going again. (Enough to test most of the population regularly, like every two weeks.)

Together, those two things tell me we should have such a large testing capacity that testing symptomatic people isn't a stretch. (Of course, we might need more reliable tests if their medical situation is shaky, which is the different category of testing capacity.)
EEE strategy doesn't require starting out as a monopoly, it's just that it's easier if you're already a monopoly.

One could argue that EEE is a strategy to gain monopoly status. Microsoft does NOT have a monopoly in this space currently, but perhaps they want to get one (but only in practice, not quite legally recognized as one).

I see nothing wrong with bringing up EEE before it happens. Which scenario is more likely to discourage the tactic (A) nobody cares until the second E or (B) people are worried about any hint of it.

What is Microsoft doing right now to remove EEE from their options? For example, they could release the whole GitHub codebase under AGPL, and that would be quite a reassurance but not a guarantee.

"It is easier to avoid temptation than to resist it" — Dan Ariely
Amazon obviously feels they are now big enough and dominant enough in online commerce that they don't need the additional traffic affiliates provide.

It seems that the common prevailing view (at least in the US) is that Amazon is some great, insurmountable e-commerce powerhouse. I'd argue that the UX of their core product (the Amazon e-commerce website) continues to be lacklustre and is an opportunity for a well-funded, strategic competitor.

One example: try to find the list of all microwaves that Amazon sells and sort them by lowest to highest price.

You can do a search for 'microwaves' and get a 'relevancy' list of products but it's filled with accessories, microwave adjacent products and other such junk.

Key things that users would want to do are difficult and have been for years. The scale of their business and offering has made them complacent to issues such as this.
I know it's folly but I'm trying to follow the logic here. Newsom and Cuomo, who won their offices fairly easily in their respective elections, seized on a plan to drastically hurt the economies of their respective states. Because, being the ones who took charge of the situation, that would gain some intangible leadership points that would increase their chances of winning their next elections despite the inevitable severe unemployment and budget shortfalls that would much more certainly sink their chances.
I don't understand why you would want to run tiny systems for that. Properly configured Linux processes will do the same.
Things are much worse at Gannett, parent company of usatoday. Personally, being laid off on March 31! Almost every employee is effected at this time, either furloughed for few hours a week, pay cut or let go !!
I think you may be able to.purchase one, but if you want insurance to cover it....
Where did you read that? The book you are thinking of is "The Oregon Experiment" [0], the "small complex" is the University of Oregon [1], and the project was broadly successful. To quote WP:

> In the late 1960s and early 1970s, students and faculty at the University of Oregon protested against log trucks driving through campus; against the destruction of a 19th-century cemetery; against the military draft and the invasions and occupations in Southeast Asia; and against the idea that the University was acting in place of students' parents.[4] On top of this, buildings created since the end of World War II included Brutalist architecture, which was aesthetically polarizing.

I grew up in Eugene and can confirm all of this. Following the restructuring of Franklin Boulevard, there are no longer any logging or gravel trucks driving through the Ferry Street, downtown, or university areas. The cemetery grounds across from McArthur Court [2] are preserved and maintained. Many of Alexander's buildings and courtyards are still there, along with some of the older brutalist buildings as well as some of the newer buildings built with donor money [3][4].

I would say that the University is tangled not with local politics, but with multinational money. Nike has had a strong grasp on the University's spending habits for many decades, and their influence twists and distorts everything in the area. Despite Nike's attempts to stop it, though, the University still has an excellent architecture program to this day, and the campus is beautiful and walkable. I would say that the experiment succeeded beyond expectations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Experiment

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oregon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McArthur_Court

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield-Dowlin_Complex

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Knight_Arena
The fact that the Standard does not impose requirements upon how a piece of code behaves implies that the code is not strictly conforming, but the notion that it is "invalid" runs directly contrary to the intentions of the C89 and C99 Standards Committees, as documented in the published C99 Rationale. That document recognizes Undefined Behavior as, among other things, "identifying avenues of conforming language extension". Code that relies upon such extensions may be non-portable, but the authors of the Standard have expressly said that they did not wish to demean useful programs that happen to be non-portable.
When I turn on the news at night, I don't see the information for the county I intend to visit once it's deemed safe(er) to travel. I see the information for where I live.
Not just embedded systems, also OSes. C's standard library should generally work without the existence of a heap. After all, you have to create the heap using C before you can allocate from it.
You can also get a home test for about $500 after insurance, get a Rx from your doc, and then buy a $200 CPAP unit with low hours off ebay, Craigslist, FB Marketplace, etc. Or skip the test / Rx and titer the machine yourself using Sleepyhead / OSCAR with the help of very capable folks on cpaptalk.com. It sounds hard until you look into it, and then it's not really that difficult.
That's a good question. If control measures are undertaken to "flatten the curve" down to the capacity of the medical system, we'd expect to see new infections per day and deaths per day level out, maybe decline a little, but not decline a lot. Which is what the actuals show for the areas worst off.[1]

At some point, there's saturation, and "herd immunity". For this virus, that's somewhere in the 60%-80% range of the population. US population is around 333,000,000, so saturation is somewhere above 200 million.

We're nowhere near that. Current known US total cases are nearing 2 million. Current estimates of undetected cases are in the 80% range, so current total cases is probably around 10 million. So about 20x more people have to get sick before herd immunity. That's well over a year away.

[1] https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest
It doesn't make any sense that we continue the lockdown in its current state.

Hospitals in California aren't overrun. We were insisted upon that the "flattening the curve" was to prevent the medical system from being overwhelmed. With what we've been able to do, we're not even close to having overrun hospitals. By now, we should have ramped up the system to account for greater numbers of severe cases.

Given that, we should quarantine the vulnerable population and allow the rest of the population to get things back to normal. Otherwise, we'll come out of this with no herd immunity, potentially making the last month a total loss, and creating further loss in the near future.
uBlock Origin and DuckDuckGo user here, not noticing any change at all in website ads.
COBOL missed the vast market of small to mid-size businesses computerizing themselves with the emerging PC. It failed to migrate to microcomputers, and had its lunch eaten by the so-called "4GL" languages such as Ashton-Tate's dBase and its descendants and imitations collectively known as "xBase" (including Clipper, FoxPro and such).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton-Tate

dBase programmers in the 80's were basically the target market for COBOL: in-house business applications built around a database, with a bit of UI.

In some ways dBase was the COBOL of the microcomputer revolution. It's similarly obtuse; it has all the appeal of COBOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase#Programming_examples
Apparently there are ways to treat the cache as a static scratch pad. It is used by BIOSes during early startup, but I'm not sure whether the magic incantations are publicly known. It is second hand knowledge though, so it might just be folklore.
Why would you assume I'm on Windows?

I'm on GNU/Linux here.

But anyway, yes, I see specifically an uptick in the CPU dramatically with meetings, distinct from other browsing.
John H. Conway of Conway's Game of Life has passed
In 1999 the USS Bremerton torpedoed the New Carissa. One Mark 48 did the trick.

That was after 69 rounds from a 127 mm deck gun on the USS David R. Ray couldn't sink it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Carissa
CPAP: https://fccid.io/2ACHL-AIR104G/Internal-Photos/Internal-Phot...

BiPAP: https://fccid.io/2ACHL-A10STA3G/Internal-Photos/internal-pic...
On sso.tax, it states that "Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism for outsourcing the authentication for your website (or other product) to a third party identity provider, such as Google, Facebook, Okta, PingFederate, etc."

Isn't this the definition of Federation, rather than SSO?
We all know that the most vocal on the left, who want to silence anyone who doesn't pander to their political ideals, pressure public companies, advertisers, etc. to 'cancel' those who refuse to go along - drop their advertising, cut off their servers, purge their DNS, ban their accounts, shame them relentlessly until they disappear.

Most US companies these days have no morals, and are easily influenced by these tactics due to greed and fear of being targeted themselves. Silicon Valley and the majority of the big tech companies seem to be especially vulnerable to this, probably due to their own employee demographics.

What many of these companies don't understand, possibly because they live in a relative 'bubble' surrounded by those who think similarly, is that there are a lot of us out there who not only disagree with this type of behavior, but will actively NOT use the services of any company who supports these types of tactics.
> Not in CA, but our governor is deciding what must close, and even what items stores can sell. I suspect any news outlet (sans politics) would be desired to stay open. But you can't legislate everything.

What are you referring to with 'Not in CA'? This is in California.

I think you're confused about what's going on here, which is why you're being down-voted. This isn't about whether the LA Times is allowed to stay open or any Government direction on what businesses should be open. They are still open. It's about their sharply declining revenue from advertising.
As far as I was aware the US government issued a travel ban on China while the WHO was still wrongly claiming travel bans are ineffective.

Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/30/275959/the-china...

"Tedros, as he is called, said the WHO does not recommend limiting either trade or travel to China at this time. “In fact, we oppose it,” he said. The health organization said it would question border closures, quarantining of airplane passengers who aren’t ill, and similar steps."

This organization is either totally incompetent or complicit with spreading CCP propaganda. In fact, they reacted significantly slower than the US government.
Well, by that reasoning, if you were coding in C, you would certainly think about it and ensure overflows won't happen.

The fact is that if the compiler encounters undefined behaviour, it can do basically whatever it wants and it will still be standard-compliant.
Bitbucket offered free repos before Gitlab, but Gitlab did an amazing job making it affordable and as good as githubs offerings.

It's always pleasantly surprisingly to go to Gitlab and see how much they continue to improve.
> Unix paths don’t need to be valid UTF-8 and most programs happily pipe the mess through into text that should be valid

How about a new mount option utf8_only? When that is set on a volume, the VFS would block any attempt to create a new file/directory if the name isn't valid UTF-8. (Pre-existing file/directories with invalid UTF-8 can still be accessed.) Distributions could set it by default on all filesystems, but a user could turn it off if it caused a problem for them (which in practice is probably going to be rare.)

One could also have a flag set on the filesystem (e.g. in the superblock) similar to utf8_only. It could only be set at filesystem creation time. If it is set, then any invalid UTF-8 in a filename is a filesystem corruption which fsck could repair. A filesystem with such a flag set would ban invalid UTF-8 irrespective of any utf8_only mount option.

If we are going to ban invalid UTF-8, it would be a good idea for security reasons to ban C0 controls as well (i.e. all characters in range U+0001 to U+001F), see [1]. This could be included in the utf8_only mount option / filesystem flag, or be an independent mount option / filesystem flag. If going with the same flag for both, maybe "sane_filenames_only" might be a better name.

(Actually, for security, one should ban the UTF-8 encodings of the C1 controls as well... the CSI character U+009B might be interpreted as an ESC[ by some applications, which could have nefarious consequences. Likewise, the APC (application program command) and OSC (operating system command) characters could cause security issues, although in practice support for them is rather limited, which limits the scope of the security issues they pose.)

[1] https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251