skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should be commended for the fast customer service!
> close the door.

I'm guessing you don't have a cat, then.
When deciding on standardized behavior for C operations or data representation that may favor some hardware over others [1], who argues the side of the various hardware vendors, if they have no members on the standardization committee?

Is it fair to assume that hardware-related decisions occur in an environment where members who are sponsored by vendors argue their employers case, rather an a neutral one?

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[1] E.g., because some hardware's behavior may more naturally implement the operation.
This is called WiFi handoff and any enterprise AP deployment worth a damn should have this sorted out, albeit in a proprietary manner. The WiFi standard already has a client establishing a connection to a new AP before giving up the old one at the actual “physical” transport layer, these proprietary extensions exchange existing connection state information over the wired backbone between APs when a client is attempting to move from one to the other so that it can theoretically be a “seamless” experience. In theory, anyway.
Why does one assume the Internet is in its final form? I'm about 99% certain the phase we are in is a transitional phase. Upon the arrival of ubiquitous immersive computing, it will go through what may be its final phase shift, but right now it'll be looked back upon similar to the previous eras.
Completely unrelated to that comment - I saw Steve Martin and Martin Short last year when they were on tour together.

Many laughs about The Three Amigos.

But my absolute favorite moment, and it will remain so for the rest of my life, of on-stage performance was when they were ramping the crowd up at the start of the show by mentioning and calling back to various things they've done. They listed all of their very popular movies, skits, songs, whatever, to raucous applause.

Until Martin Short talked about "Clifford". I lost my mind cheering, expecting everyone else to. I love that movie. It's so dumb and hilarious. Literally 0 other people even clapped. Just me, in a room of 2000 people, losing my mind.

And Martin Short looked up at me and said, "Of course that would come from the cheap seats."

Just amazing.
Gotchas absolutely do work in this way in law. You just need to be willing to fight it in court.
They did not remove them, but made them optional.

Is a controverial feature, that can produce bugs, and are banned in a lot of project (one famouse, the Linux kernel).
I believe this is what’s called a “Garden Path” sentence, because it leads you to the wrong conclusion initially.
I think we are going to have to push harder. The anti-intellectual cohort has got their preferred elected leaders in more than one country these past few years. Just because smart people exist, doesn't mean they are holding the reigns currently.
Politics is a system like any other, to be observed, understood, and interacted with.
> 1. I'm well aware of that. Is that the only new evidence that's come to light since the piece I linked to though? Would have expected something more solid than unnamed sources from inside national security (see: big hack)

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of stories produced by national security forces, but there are far more reasons to be skeptical of stories being produced by the CCP. If it's a question of who to believe, I don't know why one would pick the Chinese government.

> 2. I'll grant that that's possibility in the exact same sense in which I grant the centralized cover-up theory to be a possibility, and in which I grant both the lab creation and the lab accident origin theories to be possibilities. But I'm not interested in possibilities. What I'm interested in is positive evidence supportive of this or that theory.

I just gave you positive evidence, and you dismissed it as propaganda. CIA sources are saying that is exactly what is happening on the ground. But if you need more, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence coming from non-intelligence sources. About a month ago on the "This Week in Virology" podcast, one of the visiting virologists who is an expert on coronaviruses said that China had come out and said they won't be conducting any widespread serology testing, which would be necessary for determining how widespread the outbreak got. He said the only reason for not doing this is if you didn't want to know the answer. The implication being that China knows its much worse than has been reported and they don't want the world or their own people to know, as it challenges the narrative of a competent response. And secondly, its been widely reported that China is not including asymptomatic patients in their infection counts, which is absurd, given that we now know they make up anywhere from 20-50% of infections, and are capable of spreading the disease. Again, the only reason for this is if you want to make it seem like there are fewer infections than there actually are.
I used to love front end development until react came along
>Except for the special case of unsigned char, any uninitialized read is undefined.

Could you expand on this?
Not sure if I’d use it with the scrolling, since this format is ill suited for smaller screens, but I love this idea!

One more suggestion for you to consider: a variant where each article is a link that takes the reader to a separate article page (like a normal web page) may be good. The use case is to have this print layout to skim through headlines and snippets, and dig into an article by itself if one wants to read more (and the article doesn’t fit within the non-scrolling area).
Nixon personally blamed Martha Mitchell for the scandal and impeachment.
America Is Returning to 1781
Yep. A whole lot of this is "Automata are relevant! I'm relevant!" and some hand-waving and "Doesn't this loooook like a mesh? See! We made space-time!"

Save your time, just read More is Different:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/177/4047/393
Yes it is ... I like the second video better but I should have mentioned the first as context.
I discovered the `rename` command surprisingly late in my career. You could write something like this: `rename .htm .html index.htm`. The nice thing is it works for any number of files at once (you could put a glob on the right, for example).

Oddly I just checked my Ubuntu machine and it had the man page for rename but not the command. After being prompted to install it it installed a completely different perl command and upon removing that the original manpage was gone. Very strange.
After taking a break from software side-projects to work on more physical things (woodworking, metal-working, welding). I have to agree that software is one of the most complex things we work on. Even something quite complicated that's evolved over decades, like a car, is largely comprehensible to a single person without an enormous amount of effort (i.e. many people understand how every single subsystem of a car works), while understanding everything in say linux or postgres takes a much higher level of effort (it can be done too, but there is a lot more complexity to keep track of).
This shows how hard it is to write sci-fi when I was joking about "grenades as a service" - someone's gone one better and made a wifi mesh network of landmines!

And then converted the landmines to remote-operated as part of a legal fiction about victim-operated devices. Which is the military version of the concern about robots taking jobs: to what extent is it acceptable to have munitions making their own decisions about taking lives?

Anyway, in the Shadowrun universe you'd definitely be able to hack the mesh network of landmines.
Hacker_news_scraper
hacker_news_scraper | https://github.com/victoriastuart/hacker_news_scraper

A Python 3 script for scraping the Hacker News feed, filtering that content by

* number of points, and/or

* number of comments, and/or

* excluding posts {dead | flagged | youtube | wikipedia | ...} according to a keywords list

Run via ~/.bashrc alias or crontab.

Experimental code; I will monitor it locally (scheduled to run {06:00 | 18:00} daily, starting 2020-04-14) for bugs, etc.
I've been remote for two years and don't want to go back to the daily commute. I've been happy to sacrifice one room in my home to be an office in exchange for not running the traffic gauntlet each day. The one thing I still prefer in person is whiteboarding. We have good collaboration tools but none of them yet match the efficiency of people in a room together working on a common whiteboard. There are digital whiteboards that might fill this niche but currently they're too expensive to distribute to entire teams. Maybe over time this will change.
I don't disagree with the plan. It's our only option. But how will we implement it? We have no idea how many active cases their are in the NY area (I assume you mean NYC). And we don't know how many people require hospitalization. So you cannot estimate back from the hospitalized numbers. Plus, that would only tell you how many people we infected a week ago. Except that even that isn't certain because we don't know how long between infection and hospitalization. And all of these numbers depend on what pre-existing conditions (including age) a patient has.

So are we over the worst of it or is it just starting? Should we increase or decrease our lock down right now?

And before you answer, getting it wrong won't be noticed for at least a week (or more if the 1 week incubation figure is wrong, which it is), and in that time any mistake will kill tens of thousands or burn $100bn dollars.

This is what we get for testing senators and NBA stars when we should have been studying populations. China blind sided us with this once by lying about it and covering it up. But we have blind sided ourselves as well by lacking any leadership and ignoring experts. This whole thing as been a huge lesson in how badly western governments are currently running. The slightest hint of a problem and it's every man for himself.
Yeah, I mean ShareDB is not a Database. It is just a JS client. We were thinking of building an actual JSON OT database.
100% not anonymous public comments on the internet. Having waded into the waters of r/WallStBets and even some threads on here, there is so much disinformation and propaganda that it's actively harmful to read it.
It’s a very interesting script! It’s like a top-down (columnar) Arabic without any of the later additions of diacritics and distinguishing dots.
Yes, the described interaction with TM went down prior to contacting Amex, and was relayed to Amex. The form originally submitted for the online dispute detailed that, but the dispute was still instantly denied.

There is very clearly a relationship between Amex and TM where TM is receiving preferential treatment, as TM transactions no longer even show a dispute option online.
Has Annex K been axed yet, and if not, why not?
Well, Japanese uses syllabaries.
The Korean alphabet is a better example of an 'independent' alphabet although it was likely influenced by existing alphabets and there is a theory that it was in particular influenced by Tibetan, which would link it to the "alphabet genealogical tree".
Cortex contributor here/the guy who wrote that article about using Go. The project is on the young side, so we don't have the "footprint" of older projects yet, but if you want to talk to people deploying models with Cortex I'd recommend checking out our Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/cortexlabs/cortex

All of our core contributors + a good number of users are in there, and we're all happy to chat.
Female world leaders with the ‘best Covid-19 responses’
How do you deal with tests that end up self-referencing, testing only specific implementation details and adding no additional safety? This is the trap I always fall into when I try TDD. In order to add or change a feature, you now have to write the code twice: Once to implement the change, and once to re-implement the change to assert that it does what it's supposed to. And no safety has been added, because the logic itself can still be flawed. You've just written it twice instead of once.

Generally I find tests that test the controllers, where multiple units of work are attached together, to be much more useful. But TDD does not naturally lead to these kinds of tests.
>people are much less active in general

Based on the US's obesity statistics, I don't think lack of access to a gym is Americans' problem.

Spending an hour plus commuting every day is probably more of a problem.

Between getting ready in the morning, getting kids ready, making dinner at night, putting kids to bed, that extra hour or two commuting is what replaces various other activities. And working too much in general.
Also been using nbdev for work projects in past month. So far, it's been a great productivity boost.

I really, really like the specific aspect of testing with nbdev.

Your docs/examples are your tests. The notebook is a natural environment for scaffolding mocks and other things, without having to use a testing framework over top of the unittest objects.

I'm a long-time user of IDEs, and always will be, but if your metric for producing code is just lines of code, nbdev isn't for you. However, if your metric is producing documented, tested code that is maintainable, it's definitely, for me and my team, a big productivity boost.
After a few iterations, I think I understand the point of this piece. It was a bit difficult to hone in on, though.

The article suggests that working out the theory of something like rule production systems, and then figuring out how that theory relates to existing insights from physics, is the best path toward a Fundamental Theory of Physics.

My primary source of skepticism stems from the fact that the theory of rule production systems is not exactly a new area of study. It's been well-developed at various points in time and from various perspectives by the theoretical CS, programming language theory, automated theorem proving, and mathematical logic communities. That theory addresses most of Stephen's "big difficult questions" about the non-physics side of things. For example, his "emulation cones" are a new name for a very old and extremely well-studied idea. The term "rulial space", similarly, is a new name for an idea that's well-developed in programming language theory.

I sympathize with Stephen. In fact, he sounds a bit like I did early in my scientific career. Unfortunately, though, I just don't see how these old well-understood ideas from computer science are going to result in a new fundamental theory of physics.
Uninitialized Reads
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3041020
I really enjoyed "Get the Knack" and was looking forward to their follow-up. When they named it "But the Little Girls Understand" I decided I couldn't support those pedophiles any more and never listened to, never mind bought, the album.
I don't think that monoculture (or agriculture in 2020) is a problem in of itself. The problem is producing food, and science attempts to improves the efficiency. The methods that work so far are things like crop rotation, and anything away from monoculture should generally be attempted scientifically. If you look at things like deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil, I wouldn't say the problem is the monocultured palm oil: The problem is they are cutting down forests, whether they plant ten crops on the burnt land or one.

One example is nematode diversity. The more diverse your nematodes, the better your yield. If you kill all the nematodes then you have one season of massive yields followed by really vicious Meloidogyne the next couple of years. If you condition your soil for diverse nematodes (e.g.: multiple genetically diverse rootstocks) then from the top it will look like monoculture (and it is), but your costs and impact with regard to nematicide will go down.
I can understand but these things are different for each of us. I love my 20 minute low stress commute. I listen to podcasts or think about problems in an isolated day. It breaks work life from home life and helps with boundaries. Obviously some commutes are worse than others but we all have different needs.
Definitely. With such an economic contraction, you're going to see companies hiring contractors for a while because they don't have to commit to the full overhead of an employee. We saw a huge influx of freelancers in 2008-2009 and as the economy grew pre-covid19, more and more freelancers took jobs at companies because of salaries, benefits, etc. We will very likely see a repeat of that.

Things to make sure of: make sure your rates take into account your overhead. You're going to have to pay for your own insurance, pay withholding taxes, business licenses, account for some time off/sick days, etc.

After years of freelancing, attempting to set aside money for taxes and never paying into retirement, I started using an app called https://www.catch.co/ to track all of this and it allowed me to focus more on freelancing and less on the overhead.
Little Breakthroughs
The article that Bloomberg refused to publish, that was later published at NYT, is here (no prior discussion at HN):

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/world/asia/wang-jianlin-a...
It’s really interesting tech, and a great group of people behind it. But the government doesn’t care for this nuance of what is privacy preserving tech and what is not. For now, maybe at the beginning, privacy will be emphasized. But the important part is conditioning citizens to be okay with the underlying idea of technology assisted self-surveillance, and compliance with notifications on their phone telling them to stay inside. Eventually people will forget about the underlying details and privacy will be deemphasized.

“You were okay with TrackingApp 1.0, why wouldn’t you be okay with TrackingApp 2.0?”

If we give an inch now, will the government take a mile later?

Btw, it’s worth noting that last night in his press conference, Trump was asked about contact tracing apps. He emphasized that people are worried about constitutional implications. Personally, that’s refreshing for me, and seems to distinguish him from the Bush/Cheney era pushing of the Patriot Act, or Obama’s use of dragnet surveillance and secret FISA courts.
> Unit test and integration tests are (bad) substitutes for good and modular design...

That's a complete non-sequitur. You can have spaghetti code that produces a correct result, and you can have a beautiful architecture that produces an incorrect result.

Testing is the only way to verify whether or not your code is producing the correct result. You can test by hand or automatically, but the ultimate determination on the correctness of the code relies on a test.

It has nothing to do with design.
Agreed. This is something that seems to go over-looked. It didn't take one, or even five, years to get someone like Trump in office. This was the result of many decades of significant economic and societal restructuring.
If you run a business and you choose to make a lifetime offer you don't get to take that back just because you don't want to do it any more.

Tell that to Oregon Scientific, which cancelled the "lifetime" weather updates to my weather device.

Tell that Flightradar 24, which disabled the app I paid for, and the only way to get the functionality back is to download its new app and pay for a subscription. If it was disclosed at the time of purchase that I could be cut of at any time, I wouldn't have bought it.

Two stories. There are millions more on the internet.

I believe that XM radio did something similarly slimy to people who purchased a "lifetime" subscription when the service was starting up and it needed cash.

And didn't a bunch of people get their e-books deleted when Microsoft decided to shut down its e-book service? You think you're buying a lifetime of reading, only to find out you were just renting the books.
Show HN: I made a Chrome Extension to keep track of completed tasks
>Protection from the elements

Must easier to just get good rain gear, a lot lighter too (and probably cheaper).
They look more similar when handwritten (in print, not cursive) than they do in Verdana or Liberation Sans (the two fonts used on HN on my devices).
Yeah, it depends on well agreed convention but which is ub according to the standard.
Show HN: Coronadaily – a daily email with Covid19 graphs and stats
PCem shines for emulating all the old hardware required to run old operating systems that were not DOS. VirtualBox and VMWare do not work will for this since they usually since they don't have guest extensions and working drivers for things like OS/2 2.1 and Slackware 3.0.
>Here is small excerpt.

...that has nothing to do with the problem in my opinion.

Yes, programming is fun in general but then you come in touch with the reality of the job only to find out once again that

1. you are not making things, most of the time you maintain some old crap because nobody wants to spend time and money on building a new better version etc

2. The thing you are working on is useful but you can't really tell how. The damn thing is so big that all your input after years of work is almost invisible to anyone, even on your team

3. Library here, framework there and most of your own code is just a clever way of putting them together. Fascinating at the beginning, a boring routine a few years later

4. okay, sure, that's enjoyable, sometimes too much.

5. Again - works in theory, breaks after the next meeting. "No time to rework and polish. It works somehow and generates money, so go help those guys finish their work. Bad architecture? Hard to maintain? No matter, management sees only frontend anyway"
>"the internet when he first conceived it, he thought it was a place that we would all leave the world and go to. Whereas in fact, it came here."

Eloquent way of saying that normies ruined the internet.
Financial Model Automation
And a Toyota Prius is almost exactly the same as a space shuttle, except it's not a spacecraft.
Windows Hypervisor Benchmarks (2019)
I think it's more proof that average quality video is tolerate, but average quality audio is really hard to sit through.
Only skim-read the article.
What seems to be lacking are any testable predictions of this theory, or something like derivations of existing measured constants that one would think you would get from a fundamental theory of physics.
Change careers, and program for fun on your own time.
I have been working from home with 2 children under 5 for 6 weeks now. So you are the one being quick to assume something that you have no insight to.

> Maybe what you're describing would work for some people. But to so confidently say it's a blanket solution for everyone and is not actually a problem, is frankly laughable.

Please explain to me in what situation what I described wouldn't apply? When people work in an office, they have to have some form of childcare. Daycare, school, or a caretaker/spouse at home. Obviously those are not available right now in the pandemic, but if we are assessing the viability of WFH typically, then why wouldn't they work just as well as they do when traveling to an office? What is laughable about that line of thinking?
If your army doesn't continue paying their license for their weapons, the weapons stop working just when you need them.
They said 2.5x as much power as a bike, not car.
I think it is also a message about the performer as to whether or not they allow Weird Al to do the parody.

I feel like anyone who says no takes themselves too seriously.
When you're ready for an actual improvement check out https://rsocket.io/
> for (i = 0; i <= N; ++i) { ... }

The worst thing is that people take it as acceptable that this loop is going to operate differently upon overflow (e.g. assume N is TYPE_MAX) depending on whether i or N are signed vs. unsigned.