skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Something will be the breaking point for this level of restriction/overreach in the name of surveillance.

Ever since WWII, with Marxist scholars observing that Nazi states don't receive the unrest (to them: class struggle) that we'd otherwise expect it to have, they've strongly suspected that cultural hegemony goes a long way to preventing unrest.

This comes especially into relevance when you consider that the CCP is in a position of cultural hegemony with respect to its citizens to an extent that free societies simply aren't.

The more China is able to prevent its people from accessing actually trustable institutions, the stronger its citizens obedience to it.

You say Streisand effect, but this is very greatly weakened when the state controls the most powerful communication platforms, and have suppressed communication media that it doesn't control.
Very interesting paper, thanks!

The band size of 17-30MiB is a lot less than the 256MiB mentioned here by others.
Well, toilet paper is not "essential protective gear."

That said, my point is mainly that if the government were responding effectively, we could have had production shifting to ensure proper supplies in January. That could have included toilet paper, too, though I suppose it's possible that even an effective government wouldn't have foreseen that particular oddity of the crisis.

As it stands, our government is hamstrung by the fact that its chief executive cares exactly zero for the wellbeing of the country except inasmuch as it makes him feel like he'll have better chances of winning re-election.
True, but that has very little to do with stock price. In fact, making a profit doesn't cause companies to distribute dividends. When stock prices aren't based on dividend potential, stock price slowly becomes detached from reality. Price becomes pure speculation. Worse, you can do insane things like borrowing money to buy back your own stock: this drives up the price while harming the company's future prospects because they now have to pay that loan back with interest.
I used to organise the group buys for a homebrew club.

We'd buy over a tonne of grain and probably 10 kg of hops every time. It saved us over 50% of what it would cost at the homebrew shop.

I think my record for cheap brewing using bulk-bought ingredients was about $5 for a 5 gallon keg.
I needed this last week! Building an embedded firmware image for a dashboard display, with lots of PNG files for icons etc. 61 of them.

The original developer wrote a tool to expand the PNGs to BMPs (arrays of 32-bit pixel values) and generate a C array definition as a text file. Which is lots bigger than the original PNG (13K => 100K sort of thing). Then included that C source in the build. Used up 700K of my firmware image space which was only 1MB to begin with.

So I wrote a tool to represent the raw PNG file as a C declaration, then added parts of libpng to the boot code to decompress the images during initialization. Even with libpng, I saved over 400K. Now the images use RAM instead of ROM, but that's ok I had buttloads of RAM.

Anyway, this is a much slicker way of including binary files in an image. I may go back and change my build.
Verizon Business enters into agreement to acquire BlueJeans
also http://pricepally.com
Almost all of those vehicles are from the standard automaker labels, very few luxury vehicles in those pictures.

I see one Dodge Charger in the bottom picture, which is a little sportier, and I’m sure I missed a few others, but otherwise I completely disagree with your observation. I’m not sure what you expect poor people to drive if not GM/Ford/Toyota, etc.
Crowds Gather to Protest Social Distancing
Do you really need to censor "crap"?
Also, the Chernobyl accident happened while the USSR still existed and its dominant / official language was Russian. Now the former Chornobyl power nuclear plant is in Ukraine where Ukrainian is the official language.
I really hope so, there is probably a bunch of malware on there that people don't even know about when is the last time that place has been audited? I don't blame them they are probably running with limited funds etc...
Most implementations of "serverless" functions are just long-running processes handling requests, like an HTTP server.
He’s given $38 billion to his foundation so far, on track to eventually give close to $100 billion. What, exactly, is he getting in PR that’s possibly worth $38+ billion? He’s not even selling anything!

And his foundation’s charter even specifies that the money needs to be spent within 30 or so years of his death, meaning he doesn’t get the sort of immortality Carnegie/Rockefeller/Ford/Lilly did.
gmail was just recently rewritten. it was the rewrite that made it so slow. and i say rewrite from the perspective of the user. i have no idea what they did. it was just that there was a version that, while quite old in design and lack of features, wasn't disfunctional. then it changed and is now so slow to be disfunctional.
We are not comfortable behaving normally around people with physical disabilities and it takes much more courage and patience to deal with people with mental disorders.

Our senses, instruments and minds are well adapted. It is just we lack experience to deal with the problem same way you can't feel relaxed the first time you talk to large audience but in time most people can do just that.

As children we are sheltered from people with disabilities and later in life most of us are not exposed and are not seeking exposure.
Correction: you are a social creature. There are humans who are different, OP and myself included.
You might want to look at Palm Phone — https://palm.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwhOD0BRAQEiwAK7JHmGrU18EVG1ha...
Typical Emacs user experience: sees a list of packages some other user likes, picks one with a name he finds intriguing (in my case eyebrowse), checks it, finds it cool, adopts it (possibly for a long time).
Thank you so much for writing that up!
Jeff Bezos’s 2020 Shareholder Letter
Moral fatigue in the article is very much a thing, but moreso for people living together. As someone who fits into what I call the "untroubled loner" category, I'm the source of zoom respite for a lot of people stuck together, which takes energy for me, but nothing compared to what it means to a relationship where suddenly you need to be emotionally present and "on," all the time when previously you didn't. I'm regularly in touch with about 30 people in different places via zoom, slack, etc, and the impact could be described on a Pareto distribution.

Too much mental health concern and sympathy bothers me a bit because it can be a social license to behave terribly, and the self-care narrative can seem like an enabler instead of a mitigation for a crisis. I'm advising friends to remember how abnormal this is. Their normal might not come back, but being just a bit more charitable with each other as they adapt can turn a relationship breaker into a deeper level of trust. Marriages and family are wealth, and right now they aren't earning interest or returns from the outside. Some people are starting to spend and draw down their emotional capital by being needy or subconsciously giving in to conflict for the excitement. If you lacked personal boundaries going into this, it's going to be hard when they necessarily build up just to stay sane in confinement, so being charitable about that mental space is key.

All I can say is the best way through this will be to exercise, read the stoics, and work on mastering something. This too shall pass.
LegoChem Biosciences Signs 496.3 Bln Won Licensing Deal with UK Iksuda
I wonder what causes it to be nonlinear?
I love articles like this. And I can definitely relate. Game development allows for a lot of joy, frustration and eventually pride once you look back at it.

Also reminds me of the old twitter thread where game developers shared their various tricks: https://twitter.com/Gaohmee/status/903510060197744640
Summarized in this article: https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/2/16247112
Without other data I'm not sure I find that convincing. In the US, a lot of obstetrical care takes place at offices away from hospitals.
This comment bothers me, given that it's in the top section of the comments list. We need to be having a bit of common sense in order to comment on this. That said, doesn't necessary need to be too thoughtful.

I say, We do need in-person interactions. And share our thoughts with others, I work in technology and often try to do this instead of virtual emoji handshake, because it gives me different perspective about life and how others are dealing with their problems. And more than all, to develop some empathy otherwise, life is just mundane.
Rules for Writing a Postcard
Interesting how any company with enough C++ developers will eventually develop a huge library like that (with data structures and tools and system wrappers). In the JS ecosystem, we may complain that node_modules is large, but at least we are not reimplementing and rewrapping the wheel at every corp (same for python).

Maybe if C++ had a standard package manager, people would stop coding huge libraries like that, focusing on smaller libraries that can be reused (independently).
Coronavirus: EasyJet to leave middle plane seats empty
https://archive.md/QpWki
And what is the duration exactly? Because we're unlikely to have a vaccine suitable for widespread use before 2022, and maybe not even then.
Fish and Chips is a staple of the working classes, it's not supposed to be fine dining.

What do the poor eat where you come from?

Also, "I've visited London only once 10 years ago but I don't remember any fishermen bringing their catch in the morning": Restaurants will be stocking up roughly when dawn breaks, and not through the front door.
Without knowing how QEMU does it, I'm guessing writes onto the emulated fat32 partition inside QEMU get caught by their software, and QEMU talks to Windows and says "Hello Windows, I would like to store this data as a file in this directory.". The directory can probably be on an NTFS disk or even Samba mount?

If a phone is "mounted" as FAT32, the writes from Windows should be intercepted by the driver and it would create Linux filesystem calls to create/write files. If an Android app decides to write onto that partition, there needs to be a program running on the Windows side to tell Windows' filesystem driver "Hey I'm going to create this file". Otherwise Windows will never see that file.

(I'm just guessing here, maybe there is a function to re-read the FAT?)
The hypothetical V shape recovery that everyone was touting back in March was baseless- it was under the way out of touch assumption that lock downs would last only a month and business would be allowed to open as if it were an on/off switch. Basically, it assumed 0 secondary effects to recovery.
There is also Restyaboard [0] (you have to install it on your server)

It's open source Trello like kanban board. I think there was even 1-click droplet install in DigitalOcean. Haven't used it much, so I can't really comment how good/bad it is.

0 - https://restya.com/board
Sure, workers are getting "paid" to "buy" health care that should be a public good, and is twice as expensive overall as anywhere else in the world.

That's a transference of wealth from the wealthy to the wealthy -- possibly to themselves.
The article specifically leads with this as the default technique and then wanted to describe a fun alternative.
It depends on the type of gambling. Sports based gambling has basically disappeared. Bingo/slots/casual games are up in general I think.
I get to see a lot of folly code, since I'm at Facebook. It's mostly improved implementations and semi-obvious extensions of things that already exist in the C++ standard library, plus prototypes of things that will be in the next standard. Much like boost. While this is mostly good, it has to be said that improved implementations of bad patterns from the C++ standard (especially around concurrent programming) aren't something I'd spend my own time on. Life's too short to invent a better square wheel.
Cloudflare Workers is really a Chromium "browser service worker" that runs on their servers. Since Chromium makes each browser tab isolated as possible, each instance does indeed act as a mini-VM, & AFAIK usually is created/destroyed per HTTP request.

Most deployed code uses JavaScript/TypeScript, but also can run WebAssembly, which is how they got COBOL to run there. I've also seen RUST, GoLang, & other sources run on Cloudflare Workers.

Shameless self-plug here:
https://github.com/tomByrer/awesome-cloudflare-workers
> short-term doping...
Wait, what?
The prohibition of cartels and monopolies is an old law that has been allowed to be gradually weakened.
Is the U.S. Empire in Jeopardy?
Brain Predicts 20ms into the Future
> Another is that if you do lose cooling, containers rapidly heat up in the daytime.

A single mini-split can easily cool a container even in 120 degree heat. Maybe you're talking about 15,000 BTUs instead of 10,000 for very well-insulated traditional structure. But that's like a $300 difference. And right now, energy is dirt cheap.
I don't think this is true, but i could be wrong. What is your basis for thinking you can't drink on that train?
Securing Communications in the Quantum Computing Age
I received a message from our overlords that staying at home is staying safe.

I don't feel safe.
But for better or worse I would argue anything before 1900 is not really Americana, probably earlier. I think it holds true across the world. We are talking about nostalgia from childhood or your grandparents, popular media that you consumed. I am not saying to ignore the past but I have never heard of street cars romanticized like car driving in America is. Hell, tourists will come and rent a motorcycle or a car and drive across America. Sorry I confused you.
IMO the terms "hard realtime" and "soft realtime" are unnecessarily confusing to beginners. I think that "deterministically bounded latency" and "probabilistically bounded latency" are more descriptive. But they're long and difficult to type, so we'd inevitably call them DBL and PBL, and be back at confusion.
In the year of the rat with venus out of alignment you need to look for a reverse-candlestick formation.
Yay for STM8. Cheap as dirt especially for how capable they are, and pretty sweet architecture for an 8 bit.
So, was this a delayed April Fools joke/project that had to wait until the anti-April Fools backlash of 2020 subsided?

I wonder how many other projects like this were cancelled or delayed.
V-recovery reporting is fully explained by politicians saying what people want to hear
I think the principle would state that by always picking option 1 you are no longer making a decision based on the input.

This is discussed in the paper under section 3: "Other Asses", in the paragraph starting "One way to circumvent Buridan’s Principle is to eliminate the decision".
If you click through from the article to the mailing list post that inspired it, you'll see that that's what they originally used, but it created a memory problem.
Can you please use I instead of we?

People are different and they have different needs even in social interactions.
This is an unpopular opinion, but I think it's worth considering that most of these people are probably hourly wage earners, and so when things open up again, they will probably be hired back very quickly. The people aren't going anywhere, and they haven't been deleted from society. When businesses reopen this number will probably drop substantially. The businesses themselves (restaurants, retail, etc) haven't gone anywhere, they're just not operating. Yes there will be some bankruptcies, but those companies will restructure, assets will be sold, and something else will pop up in place.

If someone has a strong case for why this isn't true, I'd love to hear it, but it's my current working thesis and I haven't been convinced otherwise. I know it's unpopular because of politics and such, but I'm optimistic about recovery.
Best Buy to furlough 51,000 employees, executives take pay cut
As this crisis has illustrated, early inaction can get you into later trouble.
I can see environmental regulations getting trashed to get the economy going. I'm worried. Here in Canada, I suspect Alberta will be given a major stimulus to get their oil workers active again. This will happen all over the world.
Although these are great, it's worth noting that they don't even come close to the functionality offered in Emacs org-mode.
And those are just the people who filed for unemployment. Based on my experience of being a young person looking for work around the 2008 crash, I imagine there are millions of young people who want to work but won't find any, so they will simply move in with mom and dad. The total "unemployment" is almost certainly much higher than 14%.
This is not a joke at all. We are serious about WebAssembly in our serverless platform and showing that it can support languages like COBOL is important.
What is that difference?
That page generates an entry in my browser back history every second.
Cask brewing was a growth area but CAMRA essentially won and made themselves redundant. CAMRA's initial aim was "good beer", but like many things the spirit was forgotten and only the simple rule remained: cask ale (and bottle conditioned ale) is real and anything is is inferior. Since then the US has become a world player in beer and good beer is mainstream now. As far as I know CAMRA are softening when it comes to kegs, especially now there are types that don't involve artificial CO_2/N_2 introduction but last much longer than casks due to no O_2 introduction.
Probably doesn't make a huge difference in outcome, but brand recognition wouldn't be the best metric here because Cask is quite often a local/smaller brewery as opposed to one of the big boys a la San Miguel etc.

Lager is also cheaper, which matters if you're defining a pint as a pint in a pub. We are a nation of alcoholics, lots of people drink at home.
Where Are You?
Someone just said "[HN is very interesting, but it's also a fairly reliable source of some extremely inhumane and self-centered comments.]".

Is this comment a satire reacting to that or is it real?

I honestly can't tell.
CTF = ?
Building a no storyboard iOS app with Swift
You also need to consider the build out. I feel like it'd be easier to get the experts required to build out a mini-icu in one central location and develop methods to mass manufacture the standardized container than it would be to fly people around the country to one off a bunch of buildings.

The portability also brings other benefits.
I mean sure but honestly it stems from the constituents and nobody wants to deal with the fix. People love to praise public transportation but nobody wants to accept the costs associated with it. That's the Bay Area.
I am expecting to see record business at the local bars when the lockdowns end. The demand is still there.
Every phone apple have released since the 5S has been faster than every other phone by a laughable amount, especially in JS benchmarks & web performance. The SE is nothing new.

For a long time, Apple's 2 gen old phones were still faster (based on Geekbench) than the fastest android phone.
Ah thanks for the reply, that makes sense. I'm more interested in phd and academia than I am getting into the industry. Unfortunately cog sci still is still a bit of an obscure academic track given its "interdisciplinary" nature. I'm currently trying to find a highly regarded online psychology program I can take post-bacc to bolster my resume to apply for a masters/phd in cog sci in a couple of years. (It'd be easier for me to relocate at that time as well)
How to launch a corona chatbot in less than a day
> Decision-making over social distancing is taking a toll on our mental health

This is a really good article.

I'm more a fan on the real title "The Reason You’re Exhausted Is ‘Moral Fatigue’"

Handling ‘Moral Fatigue’ effects R0. If it becomes to much people will give up, which ends lockdowns early and it reduces productivity and short term happiness.

With the Moral Fatigue comes adventure though, it's like a foreign holiday, stressful, but we understand the reward.

The real "toll on our mental health" will be the joblessness and health budget cuts for the coming years, not Moral Fatigue.
I don't think it's about the building - doesn't matter what kind of room it goes in. It's all supplying all the equipment and connecting it up and powering it all. A shipping container is a useful pod to do all that in and then take it where it's needed - where the patients and doctors are. Like how they build hotels nowadays by shipping furnished rooms to the building site.
C++ has a proposal for std::embed

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p104...
100s of companies assert usage rights over all ideas sent through their services
What are you doing with that information?
Here's a slightly more complicated variant: if the vote is close (for any reasonable definition of 'close') the outcome is decided by a random process, but one that does not always have a 50-50 outcome; instead it is biased, in proportion to the difference in votes, towards the side with the higher count. Only if the counts are equal are the probabilities equal, and if the difference in counts is close to the threshold for invoking this mechanism, it will almost certainly choose the side with the higher count.

For example, a series of coin flips, with each win being added to the toss-winner's vote count, until one has reached a value one greater than the higher vote count. This seems to be a natural extension of the sudden-death tie-breaker.

Because the counts are discrete, I do not think there is any sorites paradox here, and so long as more than a few votes were cast, there should be a reasonable definition of 'close'.

This would never work in practice, as the side with the larger count will always regard it as unfair, but could perfectly rational participants find this acceptable?
How does Folly compare to Google’s Abseil?

https://abseil.io/
That's funny, but it's something I've been thinking about too. When things open up I want to go see friends and catch up.
that's a separate problem and unrelated.

zynq is a trademarked product name for another technology company that makes both software and hardware, and a major one at that. your never hearing of it, which while surprising, doesn't change that fact.

from a search result perspective alone, it is a terrible idea. unsurprisingly, searching for "zynq" will bring up results for xilinx zynq. the name is terrible from both legal and business development standpoints.
> The people aren't going anywhere, and they haven't been deleted from society.

Uh, not to get too dark here, but that's definetly happening to some people.
Doubtful. There’s not going to be a clear end time to this shut down, and I for one won’t be going to a bar until I’m vaccinated.
Dear heavens I hope not. That would mean people haven’t learned a damned thing, and would also mean we’d be back in lockdown quickly (or would regret not doing so).
Security Campus der AWARE7 gestartet
A lot of small businesses have a much harder time "just not operating"; it will probably be a long time until local small businesses can come back. It's also unlikely that people will immediately go out as soon as it is deemed safe to do so. Our habits will have changed by then and we already know not to trust the (US) government's ability to accurately tell us when it's safe.