skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing Easy-to-Change Code: Your Second-Most Important Goal [video]
Australia has an olive industry. Its small, far smaller than the scale of this problem, but we do, and we make some really good robust EVO.

I don't wish this disease on the countries exposed to it, but I do hope we can negotiate better prices for our olive oil and related products selling into Europe and the world.

We're also (at least in principle, but there are holes) builders of strong biosecurity boundaries. I'd hope we can avoid this disease for a while until mitigation is worked out. We didn't escape the banana diseases. That was bad :-(
You are possibly doing better than most engineering teams if you can achieve this within your team. This takes a lot of empathy And trust from the writers of the software and the users. The teams that move the fastest are those that can use each other’s work. The teams that move the slowest are like government - each one re-writing the progress made by another as years go by with things mostly unchanged on the whole.
Talk to any first responder. Playing around near shore results in plenty of calls. It isn't just the big helicopter that pulls people off icebergs. A needless ambulance callout, followed by a kid sitting in hospital with a badly broken bone, is exactly the sort of thing we need to avoid. Doing anything recreational on the water is to be avoided.

There is a horse farm near my house. They are curtailing riding as much as possible specifically because they know that riding horses can be dangerous, especially for kids. They don't want any trips to hospital right now.
These loans are offered because that is what it costs to "move the metal". Someone in Ford accounting has done the math that its more capital efficient for "Ford" the manufacturer to offer "Ford" the credit finance arm a sum to push the rate down (similar to points on a mortgage) to "well qualified buyers" ("prime" credit) versus what it would cost to not move those units (assuming carrying cost of existing unsold units, depreciation on manufacturing capacity, etc). "Ford Credit" then goes to the capital markets and packages up these loans for investors (which, in a yield starved world, there is a voracious appetite for depending on risk profile of the loans packaged; another time, another thread about bond ratings and how it impacts money management). Dealers have to pay interest as well on cars sitting on their lots by the way. Every month a unit goes unsold, that interest cost eats into the margin for that unit.

This is not to negate your point about "buy here pay here" subprime dealers/lenders, which are also part of the problem. But that is a distinctly separate arrangement to what's going on here with new car financing sponsored by the manufacturer.

TLDR Automakers pay to subsidize zero percent financing on new car sales to get the cars out of inventory during periods of weak sales volume.
Scary. Need to brush up on my stoicism in case the gods don’t favour me. I can def see myself feeling the same fears
Right-click and drag.
I find it funny how this comment is downvoted. It seems like he heavily American userbase of this site finds it inconceivable that life can go on without cars because their local system doesn't support it.

I currently do not own a car and don't really feel any desire to get one. I had to change my lifestyle slightly, cycling and PT is not a drop in replacement for a car but I feel the things I have let go are less important than the things I have gained.

I find that sitting in traffic is a huge negative on my mental health, working from home currently has made me much happier and if work tries to drag me back to the office I'll be looking for a new job.
This is a great early detection mechanism for malware.

Providers like Crowdstrike https://www.crowdstrike.com/ already aggregate results of malware scans for customers.

This is different because it is National CSIRT of the Czech Republic and because it is a honeypot, it will let the attacker use more commands.
Eh, people have lost much more money buying overpriced McMansions.

If you intend to own the car for a long time, it is less risky to buy a reliable brand new car than a used one of the same brand. Unless you know the owner.
The perceived performance for an average desktop has been pretty stagnant since, I don't know, at least the mid-nineties.
Thanks, I noticed that just before reading your comment. I guess I can get HNS on another site and send it to them without verifying, thanks.
Come on, are you serious? This is capitalist BS.
Side note: ‘improving pollution’ means more pollution, not less.
This is great, but why not join forces with Project Honeypot?
https://www.projecthoneypot.org/
I'm buying a new car now. Parked ([price of car] - [1st years payments]) in a 1 year CD.

The great thing about predatory lending schemes in car financing is that you get ot be the predator if you have the cash on hand.
Corona got me off my ass to do something real
trinary.cc (don't go there except in the wayback machine, it's dead and replaced with a spam site) used to be a great reference on three-valued logic.
Great write up on the nature of fear! It's amazing how much the mind can fight to deny the reality of the situation you're in during such episodes.

The dull chest pain sticks around for a surprisingly long amount of time. I'm at day 25 now since my ER visit and just noticed that I haven't felt any of that dull pressure in at least 2 or 3 days at this point.
A new recruiting platform targeted at graphic designers
> I would like to see a fee for unsolicited bulk mail senders to help pay for the service,

This is how it currently works, the USPS gets money for delivering bulk mail.
Another aspect to consider is dealerships make much more money off used than new. Sometimes they'll even cut a deal on a new car just to get the trade-in.

A used car price collapse will have big impacts on dealer franchises. I know they're not necessarily a sympathetic group but it will definitely have an impact on the economy in many ways. Tighter margins, consolidation of territory as dealerships go out of business, and so on, means those dealerships are spending less on contracts.

There will be some kind of auto dealer market in a year or two but, barring massive government intervention to keep everything right where it is, it's going to be different in ways that touch many parts of our economy.
That's a fair point about the Perl example, but Scheme and Common Lisp (including both Chicken and SBCL, last I checked) support (if not outright require) full numeric towers with rational number types, so these are indeed exact representations (unless you explicitly request binary floats for e.g. performance reasons) and not just rounding during printing.

There are lots of other examples of doing it "right" (using more suitable numeric types) over at https://0.30000000000000004.com/ (alongside a bunch of examples that, to your point, just round, or to the GP's point, just stick to binary floats).
Those are for brand new cars, you're thinking of shady used dealers
Jira is slowwwwwwwww. Like using index cards on a whiteboard would be faster.

If you want to make sure no one ever reads a document, put it in Confluence. Unless you've bookmarked it, you'll never find it again, let alone anyone else.
Small claims court is useful. They either have to pay up or show up in court, to start with. Paying up is usually cheaper. Not showing up means instant judgement for the party that shows up.
Interesting, can you leave the source where you determined we subsidize roads so people can move to wealthier neighborhoods? Because last I checked, we subsidize roads so big trucks can drive on them every day. If we didn't have trucks and buses, our roads would easily last 100 years.
Yes, this is a fully transitive deps list.

I mentioned autotools as part of the build system of some of our dependencies. We abandoned it ourselves in disgust many years ago (in favor of waf; meson may be in our future).

Boost is critical for us because we aim for compatibility (and for macOS that means buildability) on systems only reaching C++98, meaning that boost fills in large parts of the then-missing std:: namespace (such as shared_ptr<>). We will move to C++11 after our 6.0 release, but boost still provides several other very useful bits of functionality.

GTK+ remains useful even as we slowly move away from it, and there remains the big four (text entry, file browsing, treeviews and menus) that will be a huge effort to reimplement. Our goal is to eventually depend only upon GDK (i.e. a thin window system wrapper), but I doubt that we will ever reach that goal.
Can we ever go back?
Is 5G Dangerous or Harmful to Our Health? – A Summary of Previous Research
Getting from commuter rail stations to suburban locations is often difficult even with Uber/Lyft. In any case, even with relatively good commuter rail--I'm about a 7 minute drive from a station--it's basically useless for evening activities. Outside of rush hour it runs about every 90 minutes. And this is a good commuter rail system.
As a matter of caution, I always keep psychostimulants handy. Particularly: ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and amphetamine salts. Also keep some other beta receptor agonists, like Ventolin. You never know when it can save your life.
This is my favorite take on “why” by Jay Freeman (saurik):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReKCp9K_Jqw
Softare expands to fill the CPU available.
I think it's amazing that wildlife is flourishing in Yosemite right now. I feel conservation is important in the preservation of biodiversity.

But I want to point out an incorrect historical assumption on the author's part. This paragraph caught my attention:

> Tourists aren’t allowed in California’s most popular national park, but if they could visit, they might feel as if they had been transported to another time. Either to a previous era, before millions of people started motoring into the valley every year, or to a possible future one, where the artifacts of civilization remain, with fewer humans in the mix.

In fact, Yosemite, like much of North America, was inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years. The Miwok people and others lived in Yosemite before it became a national park.

It's a shame the L.A. Times author didn't include this, especially considering there are plenty of articles to be found about the indigenous history of Yosemite merely by Googling it.

Here's what I found:

> When the Yosemite Valley was first preserved for public use by President Lincoln in 1864 (giving the property to the state of California), much of the local indigenous community had already been devastated by a state militia group, the Mariposa Battalion, as a part of what is today known as the Mariposa War. [0]

[0] https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/erasing-native-ame...
>Quarantining is a fancy word for arrest, with zero cause.

There is probable cause. You probably have the virus. Spreading it around is negligent manslaughter. This court sentences you to two weeks in a hotel.
Here's one:

https://www.pandemiceconomist.com/2020/04/costs-and-benefits...
TL;DR (copied directly from the post):

With these values, if a lockdown of two years or less will stop the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a good idea. With the current research into treatments and vaccines and the development of testing and tracing strategies, I believe that there will be a medical or public health way to stop the pandemic in less than two years. Notably, the net benefit of a decision to initiate or sustain lockdown goes up over time, because the time remaining until medical countermeasures are available keeps going down.
I used LiterateMarkdown [1] to write a PhD thesis in Markdown with reasonable success. It's main feature is being able to read Jupyter notebooks and include computations and plots using R, python and Groovy inline, so pretty handy for a thesis with lots of data analysis.

A beauty of using Pandoc is you can translate to Word for people who insist on that for review / edit / comments.

One tip: on OSX I use Skim as the PDF previewer. It is not a particularly great or special PDF viewer except for one thing: it does live update of the PDF without shifting the position of the page, even if you are zoomed in etc. This means you can work on a section iteratively and watch it update live as you work, which is pretty handy for proof-reading what you are writing.

[1] https://bit.ly/2XzTpSy
[2] https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/
> That means you will very quickly owe more than the car is worth

Well duh that happens the second you drove the car off the lot. On day two of your ownership you still owe the full cost of a brand new car but can only sell someone a second hand car.

That’s just a truism of buying a new car. The length of the finance agreement is irrelevant.
1998 was 22 years ago. At some point we've gotta let it go. And I'm not going to argue about Boost, but it'll suffice to say that I passionately hate C++ and Boost is a big part of why. That Ardour is a C++ project has a lot to do with its sprawling complexity, these are often correlated (which is why I guessed C++ from your earlier description). Also, I would definitely recommend looking into Meson instead of waf, having used both.

Anyway, I think we have reached something resembling an understanding. Your dependencies are fairly reasonable, but there's room to and reason to cull them down a bit.
> Chapoly depends on a reliable per-message CSPRNG

What? You just need the CSPRNG for generating the initial nonce (to use with the shared secret). You can just use a counter for different messages.
Sure, but the "final bottom-line price" includes the value of the financing.

If a bank would charge you 4%, then on a 5-year loan for a $30K car, 0% financing is worth on the order of $3,000.

I'd regard the interest rate as fictitious on its own, but it goes into your calculation to determine how good your deal is for comparison.
It wasn't always this way. My college job in the early 90's was at a record store that had a Ticketmaster machine. This was a CRT terminal with custom impact (not dot-matrix!) ticket printer, talking to their central computer over a leased line. They paid for all of that with a $2.25 charge on each ticket sold. And somehow today, they're charging you even more to print the ticket yourself at home, on your equipment, on your internet connection, on your paper.
Visual Studio calls it Annotate as well, when using TFS and/or Git.

Never really thought about the why.
To each their own. It always fascinates me to hear about Java/.NET environments that massive. Do you only work on 1 project for months at a time? Do you not ever need to reboot into another OS? Is your laptop power efficient? Do you have a separate machine just for Gaming?

I mostly program in languages like Ruby & Perl using Vim. Even with my decked out version that has 35 plugins, and some other bells and whistles, I'm on average using 20 MB of RAM. Open/Close is near instantaneous.
Let me just say that typing {}[] is super painful on many international variants of QWERTY. Typically you need to press a modifier for both (Alt Gr).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#International_variants
Ok but you are just making up fake numbers
This doesn't work to change a file name to something completely different, while you can do that using the posted gist, so there's a necessity for it to not re-type the path to the file twice.
In the discussion of Discord Bots, be aware of Discord Bots that share your private group channel data online.
This has been the case from day with essentially every story I have read. A month ago, when my company started working from, I was caught rather by surprise because I don’t really follow the news.

I wanted a frame of reference, how bad is this thing, really? I googled “Coronavirus vs swine flu vs sars vs mers vs West Nile virus.” Every single hit was a conspiracy theory like website. Which tells you that no “serious” journalist could be bothered to ask that obvious question.
Nope. All they can be bothered to do is write fear mongering drivel this.
Idem here!
It seems that we are being downvoted now
Sure we also subsidize them for other vehicles too.
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/katy/news/article/Braggin...

Edit: would also like to point out that the billions that they spent to widen that freeway 10 years ago did not reduce congestion because more people built in sprawling suburbs 30 miles from Houston:
http://cityobservatory.org/reducing-congestion-katy-didnt/
I'm not sure you're really making the argument you think here...

Good software may mean thinking about circumstances like "we're dealing with lots of text parsing and have seen bugs from typos in common keywords" and doing what makes most sense: "let's prevent those in the future, but using constants for keywords". It's only cargo culting if you don't know why you're doing something.

Setting a rule so you don't have to debate something later is a valid solution and may still offset some redundancies introduced this way.
The grass is a cool feature showing how well three.js works,
maybe add a small world building tool with different terrains. Not sure how much more load it would add.
I understand your point, and apologize. I definitely could have put that less harshly.

I'm just so sick of modern sites being an absolute pain to use from an accessibility point of view. It makes life so much harder.
Why do you think only brands with advertising make it on the store shelf?

Or why doesn't one of the marketed brands stop the advertising? If it doesn't affect sales, it's a useless expense, and any profit maximizing entity would cut it.

To me, the obvious answer is that advertising does work. Without it people don't by your product that much, and you get replaced on the store shelves by brands that produce sales.

Also note that the store brands are being advertised when the store markets itself. They're not unadvertised.
I hate to say it, but I’m actually jealous of people who have gone through and recovered from COVID-19. You can enter normal life again, you don’t need to have the fear, the rest of us are simply waiting because the chances of us getting it at some point is very high.

I actually wonder if some controlled exposure might be a good thing, I can get it and (statistically) recover from it at a place away from my family, and then come back and be the one that does everything for everybody.
You could try and detect some percent of persistent installs. The linked item is scanning launchd. Systemd is very similar for Linux. Non-systemd things are so diverse (IMO) that an attempt would devolve into a generic IPS. Which exist already, kind of suck, and find crapware with varying degrees of success.
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> 0% financing is worth on the order of $3,000

It doesn’t make any sense to think about it like this - the finance isn’t available without the car and if you want the car without the finance you will suddenly find the price of the car can be lower. They aren’t two separate things. It’s one price!
It depends. Do you want deterministic compute time? Then you have to settle for something inaccurate.
At the Interface of Algebra and Statistics
Interesting, earlier reporting said that it frequently presented without a fever. I know that now they basically won’t even test you if you don’t have a fever. I wonder what’s correct.

https://www.mcknights.com/news/clinical-news/new-data-leads-...
Time value of money [1]. You should evaluate if the cash rebate is a greater amount than you could've earned taking a 0% loan and sticking the cash into investments. Any interest rate on a loan at or below the rate of inflation is essentially free money (assuming you can service the debt without fail).

Also, lots of comments in this thread not understanding the cost of the vehicle versus the cost of financing. You should always negotiate the cost of the vehicle separately (as low as possible, obviously, between different dealerships), before the financing to prevent being sold on a monthly payment versus total vehicle price. Otherwise, it becomes trivial for the dealership to inflate their margins on your transaction.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi... (Khan Academy: Time value of money)
> You will never understand every detail of the implementation of every level on that stack; but you can understand all of them to some level of abstraction, and any specific layer to essentially any depth necessary for any purpose.

As David Deutsch argues in The Beginning of Infinity, this is true not just for computers, but for everything.
The virus has a reported 12-20% hospitalization rate. Once they overfill in any given region, the death rate and the hospitalization rate become the same.

We can argue about small percents for CFR, which only apply given healthcare resources, but if we do not stay under the hospital thresholds by some means, we get a catastrophic death rate that is comparable to the 1918 Spanish Flu, which had something in the neighborhood of a 10-20% fatality rate.

Unless we somehow find an astonishing number of people are true asymptomatic, this will hold. The Iceland survey does not yet count, as they surveyed and tested and found a goodly number of people positive, but we haven't seen the followup of how many develop symptoms where it can take 11.5 days in 97.5% of all cases to develop.

So, we are in a Class 5 pandemic, one of similar severity to the 1918 Spanish Flu. We just have oxygen and ventilators now for pneumonia. Once we run out of those resources, we get to "manage the flow of bodies". If we get the infection rate of the 2009 swine flu at 60.8 million cases, we stand to lose up to 7 million lives in the United States alone.
I like remote FF setup. Any comment on Earn it act?
I didn't know {} could nest!
I am only a hobbyist user of Elm, but the original post also made me sad.

Here's an interview from 2017 with Evan where he discusses Elm's approach to interop.
https://elmtown.simplecast.fm/b06499a6
Skip to about 8.5 minutes in.

While Luke's approach certainly could have been better, I don't think it had any bearing on the result. The reason for not allowing Javascript into Elm libraries seems fundamental to what Elm is trying to achieve.
Hackers Are Exploiting Covid-19 to Attack Users
I do some ecomm stuff; sales are down about that much on Amazon; our direct is up but only ~25%. My point is; sounds about right...
Marketing is all powerful evil. Even if ads don't work.

Some companies are better than others. Instead of "buy my product" they teach consumers they look cool if they buy. We wouldn't be dealing with Apple's BS if people only cared about quality.
Edit, I was wrong on the improving pollution side note, sorry. Anyway the capitalist consumism will pollute more than it can be improved...
Also solved with ad blockers, NewPipe and ytdl. With better features: unlike Premium, they block tracking.
Tesla technically.
If the linker decides something is unused and strips it, then it doesn't have a realistic impact on security. It was proven the function won't be used, so it can't be exploited even if present.

The only edge case I can think of is if you could use it for ROPing some gadgets from the unused functions, but that's pretty unlikely and the gadgets are usually not that unique.

Most advantages are in performance: smaller size, faster loading, better cache usage.
If you as a venue use something other than TM, you can lose future TM run shows if there are comparable venues in your area.
New research examines wastewater to detect community spread of Covid-19
> Monopoly Lies

> Monopolists lie to protect themselves. They know that bragging about their great monopoly invites being audited, scrutinized, and attacked. Since they very much want their monopoly profits to continue unmolested, they tend to do whatever they can to conceal their monopoly—usually by exaggerating the power of their (nonexistent) competition.

Don't fuck up the culture, Brian!
It seems to me that computational throughput has improved exponentially, but latency for input tasks etc. has in fact worsened in many cases.