skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NYC was the best city on the entire east coast back then. We closed early and had fewer deaths because of it. Unfortunately that lesson wasn't learned (likely because nobody in charge of anything back then is still alive today), and this time we were unfortunately saddled with an incompetent governor and mayor who hadn't learned from history and didn't take action soon enough.
Yeah, it's like inverse survivor bias.
Agreed. I recently bought a Nokia 3310, just to hold my two extra SIMs (because I move around) and I was enamored by the T9 keyboard and remembered typing SMS's while driving without looking, back in the good old days 20 years ago. You can't do that shit anymore. Slightly off-topic but felt I should share..
Nice, a bit too fast on my machine though. It should probably use a time-based interval, rather than updating every frame.
I still have a 6s with a headphone jack. I don't use headphones much, but do plug it into our cars (admittedly not as much of an issue lately). One has no bluetooth, one has incompatible bluetooth. Neither have USB input. Both are likely to last at least ten more years. One adapter per car is not going to be the end of the world, but it is an annoyance.
npm is just a low friction package registry.
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Hate the face ID on my pixel 4. Requires me to hold my phone at the perfect angle/distance to work reliably, and even then, it's slower than the fingerprent sensor on my Pixel 1 was.
I'd guess it was an embedded developer working on DVD player firmware.
Synergy. End to end tracing of dependencies. Licensing mirrors subsets to on premise clients. Single point of flow for code to published package. There’s plenty of places to extend money they’re making elsewhere.
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"There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat." -Margin Call

It feels like the first two are increasingly taken, so businesses are lazily switching to various versions of #3. I don't know where the regulators and punishment for doing that have gone.
I found a two page cheat sheet in 1993 and that was enough for the next 27 years.
Looks great on my new iPad Pro, so I guess it was worth the money!
> I remember with fondness the day my parents upgraded to DSL in the early 2000s and what effect that had on me.

You would have loved 2400 baud after using a 300 baud modem.

> Turns out, while I love programming, I hate JS and the world that node has given us.

Thank you for this. I have long suspected that this crud is bad enough to actually drive people away, right out of programming.
I have read "Bad Blood" and am convinced Elizabeth Holmes believed they could actually make the tech work, given enough time and resources. It was fraud, but it didn't start off that way. I felt it was "fake-it-til-you-make-it" that got out of control.

FYI, lots of great companies were built by college dropouts. Microsoft, Apple, Facebook... on and on. That has nothing to do with it.
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I would be happy to be in the same role for the rest of my career if it meant that: a) I got to work on different projects across my career b) The company I work for was happy to invest in my development and learning (through paying for courses/certs/self-learning time and importantly c) I got regular pay rises.

Sadly, the order I listed those is in decreasing order of how likely each company is to offer them. So many companies are reluctant to give out pay rises (and I'm not talking 2% inflation rises that only ensure you stay above water). There's almost this unspoken principle where if you agreed to do a job 5 years ago for one price, why should you want more to do the same job 5 years later? There's no notion that maybe your institutional knowledge is worth something, or you're a better engineer now, or the company will be worse off if you leave vs. if they hire somebody else.

And so, people more often than not move companies to get a raise. Gone are the days where you can start at a company as a grad, and work there till you retire. I wish those days were still here, but they're not. Every time I got a raise it was because I moved jobs.
Who actually likes DSLs and why? You introduce the complexity of a lexer and parser in the form of an abstraction on top of an API. What does that buy you?

In my experience, it just makes workflows more difficult since you now need to create custom editors, linters, formatters, testing frameworks, etc. You need a whole new ecosystem before you can truly become productive on top of learning an entirely new syntax.
Isn't that kind of the point of the GitHub Package Registry?
Not just my opinion. That of economists too, e.g.: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835571843/episode-991-lives-v...
For those not in the know, this is Signal/Signal Foundation. Great example, sorry I missed it.
You also have doom which is just evil and not space centric AFAIK
I never quite got a warm-fuzzy feeling from npm -- the tool, the service, the company. This announcement does nothing to help, from my perspective. Is my dependency on this or that JavaScript library something that really needs to be owned by a for-profit company?

I also kind of wonder what is the real value of a centralized repository versus just directly referencing git repos. I haven't used this gpk[0] project yet, but it looks like an interesting alternative, on paper.

[0]: https://github.com/braydonf/gpk
Npm has joined Microsoft
Woah. The tour markers feature was really unexpected, that's a really clever approach. Great work!

https://github.com/vsls-contrib/codetour/blob/master/README....
An 85 1.4 vs an equivalent smartphone lens is literally in the 100s of times more light. It's quite crazy, I don't think it'll ever be doable.

Anyways, smartphone cameras are and will be for a long time stuck because of their diffraction limited sensors due to low lens diameters.
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I don't think it's just a pattern that's imposed on people arbitrarily, but that most people find as they get older they want and need to do more of that sort of thing.
Surely there should be a way to do this without so many layers of abstraction?
I guess the concept of control is too hard, but it should be possible to simulate blocks properly falling on top of each other.
If nobody gets the credit, who gets the raise?
Since you know vi, maybe try Spacemacs? As a serious vi user, who has at times wanted to try emacs, I thought Spacemacs would probably be the way to get there from here.
You can still reference repos directly with npm.
Running with the Y2K analogy though, social distancing is like punting the Y2K issue down the road by a matter of weeks.
I'm trying to donate plasma. Unfortunately, that's very much a 1-at-a-time kind of thing and doesn't scale well. We also don't know how effective it actually is.
Buridan's Principle (1984) [pdf]
Others have commented on why the acquisition makes strategic sense from a technological perspective, but I think it's also important to consider how it makes strategic sense from a psychological perspective. For a long time, devs loved bagging on Microsoft. I once saw some Microsoft guys demo something cool at a conference, and they had to basically apologize that they were from Microsoft, because dev sentiment toward the organization was so negative, even though they were doing cool stuff.

The acquisition of GitHub was absolutely intended to capture a tool/ecosystem that developers liked using and benefit from that positive sentiment. That's why Microsoft has been so cautious about branding GitHub as a Microsoft property out the gate. It's trying to ease devs into the idea that the company is something devs can like, and I wouldn't be surprised if this psychological strategy is at work with the npm acquisition, too.
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> and it's a quad-socket motherboard

Epyc doesn't do quad sockets. Is this just another hypothetical "what if" at this point with no basis in reality?

Because sure, a hypothetical non-existent Epyc re-designed to compete in the double precision floating point space favoring memory bandwidth above all else could be really cool. Then again, so could anything else custom designed exclusively for that use case.

> but the inter-socket bandwidth would still be whatever it is now, and would be difficult to increase.

64 PCI-E 4.0 lanes form the CPU-CPU interconnect currently.

Since we're making up stuff why not assume that's doubled next generation along with being PCI-E 5.0? So that'd be 500GB/s give or take.
I'd suggest starting with the Kinesis and then trying Emacs. I tried Emacs multiple times on "regular" keyboards and it never made sense to me. It wasn't till I tried it with the Kinesis keyboard that I was able to fall in love with the keybindings. Great comment.
I don't feel like my understanding has changed.
Same feeling. Next ecmascript might be called Microscript. :)
There are countries that didn't lockdown who haven't been smacked hard by it.

Most cases undetected. Vast majority of people hit hard by it are the sickly elderly, people largely already out of the economic game.

This would have barely been an economic blip if not for the lockdowns.
> No, it's not. In the U.S. law system, the prosecutor does not determine the boundary of what a "creative work" is. That is determined by CASE LAW, which the judge applies based upon the facts of the case.

What does this change from the perspective of the person who is trying to comply with the law? You don't know what the law makes illegal but if you do something the government doesn't like then the government will decide whether it's illegal after the fact and punish you for doing it even though they never made it clear that it was actually illegal.

> The notion that statutes can, without ambiguity, capture all that they need to is defied by the entirety of legal history.

This is still not an argument for purposeful ambiguity. The fact that absolute perfection is impossible is a lame excuse for not even trying.
Like borg assimilation.
Ask HN: How would you download a browser without a browser?
Theoretically, let's say you have a brand new laptop that is fully functional but has no built-in browser. (You also don't have a phone or any other separate device.) How would you download a web browser without being able to see the web?
Sometimes stores just keep selling when out of stock to collect your email address. Especially likely if they only authorized his card instead of fully capturing the charge.
Whatever happened to people hosting things in an old computer in their basement? That used to be a more popular thing back in the days before the cloud came about and before we had these stable broadband connections. Obviously an infra like npm couldn't deliver with such a setup but at scale, who knows
I still remember dragging my CRT around to LAN parties... oh the good old days... was such a pain in the ass though in reality...
> I just don't really like tech people, despite the fact that I obviously am one of them.

Wow, this resonates with me. I have never liked my colleagues at any job, and I hate talking about tech with people outside of things related to work. I find tech people difficult to get along with and the conversations don't interest me. I say this knowing I could very well fit the same description but here's the thing:

I find that often tech people replace an entire personality with video games / following the latest tech releases / anything related to their job. Almost all "water cooler chat" at tech companies is what game they played on the weekend, what the latest steam sale is, what the latest tv show is, what new programming language they're learning. Like, please. Can we talk about something else?
I don't follow you; that's not what I said at all.

Then again, maybe that was the original problem. :)
Bittorrent or FTP
Presumably a good reason to push NPM over to it.
That's a key offering from AWS and one where they arguably have been ahead for years.
To be fair, Sony cameras have high resolution OLED panels, in the viewfinder.
It's shameful that you've been downvoted across this thread for talking sense.
Ask HN: What to do if unable to contact Expedia for a cancelled flight?
Because of Covid-19, like many others, our return flights were cancelled and we are currently in Japan, unable to return to the US. (not a bad situation, just away from home, that's it). Expedia has been impossible to reach out to. Is there another option to get a refund and schedule a new flight?
In other words, "buzzword" masturbation that contributes literally nothing to the definitions.
Also, with code, you generally don't lose the pieces when you disassemble something, and if you take a break, you can pick up right where you left off...
> I'm not sure why you think Amazon is somehow immune.

The GP didn't claim that Amazon could keep up with demand.

Their general point is the whole supply chain is straining, and shutting down Amazon is going to exacerbate the issue. Maybe that's the right thing to do, and maybe it isn't, but the broad consequences are clear.

Between COVID-19 and the US-China trade war, I hope we're all taking a long hard look at supply chain diversity going foreword.
Just to go down the pedantry-hole with you (it's fun every once in a while!): I think a reasonable interpretation of the claim is that there's no initial condition such that some amount of drive won't get you to the level of capital under discussion. This isn't tautological, as the negation would be "there are certain situations where drive alone isn't sufficient to get you to that level of capital".

That's a claim a lot of people make (I think I'd probably agree with it), and the parent comment is disagreeing.
Wow, I wish I could see the crowd reaction.

I found the demo here if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/rFv7mHTf0nA
How does this fair with something like Cluvio?
There is the alternative for ultra-long lenses of an a6000 + a soviet mirror lens. Just goes to show the flexibility of an ILC.
Think webassembly, not node.
I have never had an issue using wooden toothpicks for the headphone and lightning cable jacks. It feels like you'd really have to try to break the pin connections that way
Wait for the AOL cd to come in the mail?
The American Medical Association, which is a rotten cabal.

Fantastic podcast about them by freakonomics: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nurses-to-the-rescue/
I wonder:

Sure, the sample size on female leaders is very small. But what about the sample size of female bosses ? Are female bosses significantly better than male bosses ?
There were a few activities I did in the last week before I stayed home that definitely felt unsafe, and were the last time I did those things (in advance of official shutdowns). I went to the gym and it felt unsafe, I saw a play on Broadway and felt unsafe, and ran on the East River and felt unsafe, and then we settled in to not go anywhere anymore the next week (still a week prior to the official orders), but by then I'd already caught it. My first symptoms appeared on March 16th, meaning I'd most likely gotten it within the past week, and NYC didn't shut everything down until the 23rd, when I was already at the peak of the illness.

So I would have needed to have stopped doing things several weeks prior to the government actually getting off its ass and acting in order to be safe, but I didn't have the understanding of how widely in the community it was already spreading at that point, or how severely we were under-testing. As a city we were unbelievably late to act, and the over 10,000 dead in NYC alone (with ~750 more every day) are a testament to that.

It's the peak of absurdity to imagine the city somehow going on as normal under this unbelievable toll if only we weren't being told to shelter in place, when the only street noise you can hear a lot of the time is ambulance sirens.
There's nothing stopping someone from pulling code from an alternate package registry, or directly from someone's computer. So all the required decentralization infrastructure already exists. For people to use it, though, it has to be convenient.

The average developer isn't interested in showcasing their social/political views, starting a revolution or building the future of the internet. They just want to get the job done as quickly and effectively as possible and go home.
This is very similar to my situation, although I'm a bit younger. I've tried therapy and she recommending getting back on ADHD medication and experimenting with that. Haven't gone ahead with it.
I spent 20-odd years enjoying how how mobile phones went from being huge 2-3 pound 'bricks' all the way down to the Nokia 100 gram 'chocolate bars' of the mid-2000s that fitted beautifully in my shirt pocket.

Then I watched in disbelief as phones began getting more and more swollen every year and got too large to hold comfortably in one hand. (or fit in your top pocket)

Time and again the phone-shop salesmen would look sideways at me when I said I didn't want the latest and greatest offering, but one of the older and smaller phones. My current phone is an iPhone 5S that I have kept for several years.
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Next is pypi
I suspect that true startups (i.e. pre-Series-B companies) are rounding error in AWS earnings. They give out $100K-$1M credits like candy to accelerators as a loss-leader to get startup business.

Growth companies (like unicorns) might be a hefty chunk, but I suspect that a lot of Amazon's revenue comes from Fortune-500 companies, academic research labs, and other major tech companies (like Netflix or Snapchat) that don't run their own clouds.
So, what data is it accessing and where does that data come from? I assume it can show you players that you otherwise would have no info about in the game UI?

For example, this data had to come from network packets, so if the server is oversharing data, why wouldn't you just intercept the packets? What exactly is the cheat?

The file doesn't explain much.
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You go to work for a law office. You don't know how to be a lawyer, but you know how to make coffee and schedule appointments and read English text, so you make coffee and schedule their appointments and check their briefs for typos and grammatical errors. You learn how to be a lawyer by watching lawyers work all day for several years. They pay you a pittance, have fewer embarrassing errors in their briefs and don't have to make their own coffee or schedule their own appointments.
Similar to Microsoft's lock-in strategy when they were still the dominant player.
You'd be surprised how often git repos disappear when you have 100s or 1000s of deps.
The virus itself did all this damage. Again, you're conflating the response as being the cause when it's really the virus itself that's the cause. Social distancing and economic shutdown isn't optional at this point; it would all be happening anyway.
No addons though, I assume. That's whole point of Firefox on a phone for me. WebKit / Blink based browsers have much better performance. (I don't use any of the features you mentioned, though of course that's just specific to me. Maybe other people would find Firefox on an iPhone useful.)
Large files seem fine in emacs as long as the lines are not too long. A 100MB file is no problem if there are less than a couple of hundred characters per line. If the average line is 2K characters, emacs will be unusable.
VIA is out of the western market for the foreseeable future. They are currently manufacturing x86 CPUs for the Chinese government to break the government's reliance on western technology.

They do still make CPUs though. Just incredibly slow ones currently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DanhnASClQ (although with guaranteed government funding TBD how much that changes)
Honestly, I'm having tons of fun with really old viewfinder or DSLR lenses. If I had a bit more motivation I'd figure out the electronic lens protocol of my Sony camera, and program a microcontroller to drive an extension tubes and make autofocus lenses out of them.

So yeah, if you're willing to do without AF, and especially if you're doing video, it's difficult to beat a fairly sharp 50 1.4 for 50$
“Lubricant”!? Really!? Was that the only cringy word that came to your mind to use at this instance!?
Heh, well consider the level of abstraction involved with displaying this text on your screen.
The Finnish PM's party got 18% of the vote in the last election. She didn't stand for election, she was appointed and her party has 13% popularity right now.

So literally 13% popularity (party) and unelected.

She had 3 years of experience in federal politics before being promoted (not elected) leader of a nation.

She also has a gushing Goop-like Instagram full of gorgeous pictures of her and her boy at exotic destinations, 'thinspo' shots, glam shots.

She doesn't have any intellectual, academic, or otherwise rigorous credentials.

She's also easily the most attractive person in Finnish politics.

So the real question is - how do intelligent people interpret those who are utterly unqualified and illegitimate in almost every way, who are obviously popular at least due to their visual social media profile and nothing more ... to be 'leaders of integrity, capability, and virtue'?

And of course, arbitrarily picking two leaders from some group (ie female) as somehow evidence of something?

This the exactly the same thing as Trump, just the other side of the coin. It's anti-intellectual & I don't think we want this in politics or real political discussion.

There might be some interesting 'gender' argument somewhere there, but this is not it.
21% of people who have been confirmed to have the virus and don't anymore are dead. If the semantic argument hinges on the use of the CFR term, we don't need that term (though everything I've seen indicates CFR measures resolved cases, not total). People are using your small number to justify their belief that the virus is no worse than the flu. That does not reflect reality, and that belief is harmful.
Immutability and semver are the reasons
Have you tried contacting the airline?
How is this phone compact with 50% body-to-screen ratio. There are already compact phones like samsung's s10e which is a modern phone. Honestly this looks like an april fools joke.
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There are laws, non-profits executives & boards must follow, but there is nothing stopping any of the non-profits you listed from selling any assets you listed with them as long as doing so is in the best interest of the nonprofit; which at best is a subjective topic, at worst, easily dismissed given properly crafted pretext & reasoning.

Generally speaking, much like for profits, it is the people that run it that decided its culture, not a legal structure.
Interesting that this is the meta-story of Buridan’s Principle, not the thing itself.
Curious, why had you thought it concluded? I'm getting similar reactions from some people now that I got to episode 10. I'm confused because the story was never supposed to wrap up or anything
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Why is there bias against software?
I wonder if 2000n years from now, scholars will be wondering over the meaning of that sentence, the same way that they currently discuss the meaning of "wine-dark sea" in the Iliad and the Odyssey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine-dark_sea_(Homer))
Elon wants fast growth, which is great, but has a lavish lifestyle using borrowing money on his volatile shares.

Most people can't even handle the volatility of Tesla shares emotionally, when it's leveraged even more, of course Elon get very frustrated when the stock goes down.

He should have just waited a bit more with his billionaire lifestyle that he deserves.
Ubuntu and Debian have mirrors of their apt repositories hosted all around the world by groups, schools, businesses, etc. There is no single point of failure, you grab from the best mirror near you.