skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there is less and less evidence to support ventilator use for covid these days.

Not none.

But I don't know that I want to live through 15-25 days on a vent for a 20% chance of survival with near-certainty of severe lung damage and significant risk of delirium or dementia, along with the potential other long-term effects.

Not saying that it isn't maybe worth considering, bit it certainly isn't an obvious choice
All the companies you listed are different though. Early on people were telling Holmes that whatever she wanted to do WAS NOT POSSIBLE. It became a fraud very early on.
There are lo-tech spaces, and a great many which are not, or avoid high technology, which is what most people. mean by "tech sector", if not the even narrower band of "high information technology".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tech

Particularly the cited reference, the OECD definition:

Hatzichronoglou, Thomas: "Revision of the High-Technology Sector and Product Classification", OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 1997/02, OECD Publishing, Paris.

https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/revisi...

Page 7 specifically divides industries into four technology levels, high, medium-high, medium low, and low.

Given J.S. Mill's wonderful definition of technology, 'the study of means", there's little in human activity which is ccompletely atechnological. There remains, however, much that is quite some remove from the cutting edge.

In the technology adoption lifecycle, high tech are innovators. An early-adopter firm is itself still not high tech itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle
I'd say the three biggest namespaces in dev are github, npm and docker hub - will Microsoft go 3 for 3?

Docker Hub feels a bit neglected - it could be aliased to docker.pkg.github.com and that'd be a huge improvement
It's far from a comprehensive resource, but the thing that got me started with emacs many years ago was Steve Yegge's post Effective Emacs:

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

Note some of the advice, such as how to swap Ctrl and Caps-Lock on specific OSes, maybe be outdated now.

That and the built in tutorial - there should be a link on the screen when you start up emacs, or `C-h t` - should be enough to get you started.
Given that Harvard's endowment is over 40 billion dollars, this feels like people giving Bill Gates reddit gold in his AMA.
This doesn’t resonate with me, because so much of programming is craftsmanship. Often the only purpose of some aspect of programming that matters is that I made it. I crafted it. The design that exists matters because I made it. I didn’t pay someone else to do it. I didn’t copy it. I made it. The act of making it is very fundamental.

I think it would be similar to artwork. There’s no such thing as egoless art making. It’s literally the product of the artist.
Yeah, how many are dead from the american revolution? And how many were lifted out of poverty by each revolution? Since you can apparently trace all of history following a revolution to that revolution, how do you add up these numbers? While we're at it, how many deaths do you pin on the british empire and the russian empire?
It's not a bad idea for MS to sponsor this stuff as a PR play, but it needs a strong commitment to ombudsing and community oversight, or it becomes just another Embrace/Extend/Extinguish.
People romanticize all sorts of things, welding, nursing...

My grandfather was a farmer and died after an accident cleaning something with gasoline. Sounds dumb (I don't know the details) but farmers tend to have accidents like that because the whole job is working with dangerous machinery, chemicals, and animals, and a "family farmer" has an incentive to take risks someone working for a corporation doesn't.

I remember a news story about a farmer who passed out from breathing something toxic, so his oldest son goes to get him, he passes out too, his wife goes...the whole family died like that one after the other.
“DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!”
— Steve Ballmer, 2000
two reasons:

1) don't care about speeds faster than what LTE provides

2) I think there are still some unanswered questions about 5Gs impact on health, and don't want the radio in my phone. I can wait, due to 1 above.
Based on the README, it looks like it's a partial fork/mod of this upstream repo [0], which is essentially set of tooling that "uses PCIe hardware devices to read and write target system memory".

So if I'm reading this right, the partial fork has changes specifically to read CS:Go data directly out of device memory to another device, which in turn processes that data and renders a web-based map of all player locations.

[0] https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech
Can you explain your logical reasoning for why you believe most folks with medical school debt come from well off middle class families?

I'm confused because need based financial aid for medical schools is still mostly loans. My partner who comes from a relatively poor family (they used to be on welfare) had most of their need based financial aid in the form of loans. Out of her residency class the highest % of folks taking out loans were from low to middle income families not well off families. So I'm curious where you got that stat from?
So much for academia. I'm a college drop out, but I've still got you beat on the subject of rationality.

I would like to point out I'm not the one hiding behind a throwaway. Maybe you are just trolling.

You could literally read on the subject for months. There's an abundance of evidence and it's not hidden.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=resources+for+climate+change+deniers
It's called Typescript
The main benefit of cloud gaming might end up being a significant reduction in cheating.

The problem historically has been that game clients have access to a lot of game state that enables cheats. With a "thin client" like Google Stadia, there should be a lot less opportunity for hacks. The incoming game data is an audio/video stream, which makes many hacks hard/impossible.

It would be great to play FPS games without any cheaters, they can easily spoil an otherwise amazing game. Maybe future online tournaments will be cloud gaming only.
Thanks for the feedback. I will consider removing it. KanRails wants to be a B2B tool, not another Trello. It was just a recommendation.
Thanks for the comment. You can put in your personal email and it would work just fine.
I’ve been thinking about pivoting into iOS dev. swift seems perfectly fine, and the restricted eco system seems paradoxically liberating
I don't think that the way HN ranks stories to the front page makes any difference to anyone's investments, let alone a 100X exit type difference.

I've seen little evidence since joining in 2014 against the hypothesis that everything here is simply about maintaining quality and topical interest.

(Sorry, I can't even begin connect the dots about how some cool hack (say Pac Man that fits into a boot sector) being #4 on the front page generates ROI for some VC, but I had a good chuckle.)

I also don't think that blatant spammers would be easily able to manipulate the ranking even if they knew exactly how it is done. I have faith that HN would be on to their antics in a heartbeat.
Google to Significantly Slow Hiring in 2020: Full CEO Memo
Did you have to do any training for that? I’ve been contemplating leaving tech and have always been interesting in your area.
Docker is definitely getting acquired in the near future, and Microsoft is as good a guess as any.
How private-equity firms squeeze hospital patients for profits
A Recipe for Good Health (2017)
It's interesting because you know we are weeding out talent that comes from low socio economic backgrounds and who need cash flow to support their families. At end of the day, we shouldn't be weeding out our doctors to only be folks who don't need to support their families for the next 10 years.
Not the author BTW. We're just looking at various collaboration tools to help our devs beat the remote working challenges. This is one thing we found. The other great one was VS Code Live Share.
> I mean, people were putting spam packages in NPM just to get SEO on some outside webpage through the default NPM package webpages. People were squatting and stealing package names. Leftpad... the community management here is nightmarishly hard

It's not NPM's fault (well, other than wrt. the leftpad thing), it's all about the "community". The Javascript open source community is a dumpster fire.
It reminds me of this:
https://imgur.com/gallery/eVubO
"Actually" is a filler adverb that is often no better than ", like, " or "uhm".

Of course you want the facts, and not some fictional story.

Most adverbs add nothing to a corpus. Before hastily putting down any adverb, if you stop and pause momentarily to think whether it is really necessary, your writing will totally improve.
It’s his Twitter. He can say whatever he wants to on Twitter. Now, that you’ve called him out on here you should be careful he doesn’t ruin your life.
If you double tap the fingerprint sensor it will slide the screen down so you can reach the top without stretching.
I can imagine other interesting use cases. fat32 over the network, for example: so you can e.g. plug in a USB device into some legacy hardware, and when it does a directory read, the device lies to the host about what's inside, only retrieving the bytes over the air during a file read operation.

I think the hard part is that if the "disk" is mounted, the FAT would be in memory on Windows, so it's very hard to put in a file from "outside", because Windows will probably never re-read the FAT from the disk and will never see that file.
Redis (single-threaded) is just fine for all but the biggest scale, is well-tested, and because it's a simpler model less likely to have all the terribly complicated edge-case bugs the introduction of concurrency implies.

Also there's a matter of need. It does one no good if a KV store can churn through 200 kops/s if you can only deliver 100kops/s. If one or two redis instances (plus replicas, etc., or maybe a minimal three-master cluster) can serve the entire workload, saving two or three nodes by "upgrading" to the likes of KeyDB doesn't seem worth it. I mean, unless you're aiming to get to the melt-the-metal it's so "hot" all the time performance.
Why is this article _soooo_ long, is there a minimum character limit for wired.com homework?

TL;DR: Guy was a brillaint coder and leader then got non-vital heart surgery and after recovery his personality changed. He became lethargic and uninspired - turns out he had frontotemporal dementia.

It's kinda ironic that the article about disease that lowers your attention span to 30seconds is 30 minute long read.
It's worth noting that TypeScript is a Microsoft product. As TypeScript has become increasingly popular, I'd imagine that Microsoft has also paid increasing amounts of attention to the JavaScript ecosystem.
Can anybody comment on how hosting a package repo for someone large may help peering? I'd imagine they would see significant upstream traffic and globally but not certain if that makes an impact
Most people don't realise that their phone camera+software hallucinates most of what you get in the final image.
This thing drove me wild for like 2 weeks, I was not sure it could be true. Until I realized that the composition of continuous functions is continuous.

But that makes me wonder ... how can we then have unstable problems in the real world? Google "unstable problem definition". If everything is continuous, then small enough changes in input always result in small changes in output. And yet, unstable problems are the opposite. If a pencil is released when standing on its point, it can fall to one side or another side, rather far away.

To me, this has to do also with comparing timestamps across distributed systems, like Spanner's database timestamping synchronization. When I started architecting distributed systems, and quorums, I had to deal with this.

I remember emailing Leslie Lamport a few times and arguing with him about this :)

Some people don't even believe Leslie Lamport's Buridan's Principle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVkSJ0QWzXA
That depends on the nature of the restriction. One is:

You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.
I found out Cloudflare does have a way to subscribe, you have to do it through an internal ticket though.
Correct, it is not their fault. But they ended up spending all their time on it, and in an unproductive manner, I feel.
Netflix Stock Surges to Record Highs as Market Cap Tops Disney
> Current predictions put the economic impact per life saved by social distancing at ~$190 million.

That sounds, on the face of it, implausibly high. To run some numbers - estimates of how much of the population would be infected without countermeasures run 40-70%, and death rates run 1-2% (this would be much worse if hospitals were overrun by an estimated 8 million ICU patients over a few months, but we'll use very conservative numbers). The US population, with 40% infected and 1% of those dead, leaves us with about 1.3M deaths, times your $190M per life is $25T, or about 15 months of US GDP. Is that really the claim here? The equivalent of bringing GDP to 0 for 15 straight months?
"How to avoid deadlocks in Java"

I'm curious, this is not something I've needed to know, but what would be Java specific to an answer?

If I was asked about deadlocks, I would say "always acquire resources in the same order".
Inference Projections for States
> because the shareholder is seeking redress from a specific harm to them caused by the company

Specifically, the harm they're seeking redress from is a drop in the value of their stock.

And the redress they are seeking is also a drop in the value of their stock.

This is the conceptual problem. Shareholders have not suffered any harm that can conceivably be redressed by a shareholder lawsuit. The only possible effect of the lawsuit is to hurt the shareholders even more than they were hurt before.
Can't we get all that directly from git repos and signed tags?
Apple used to tout the size of its small phones until the plan changed
> 'I am just one of those people who was very fortunate, where things worked out, and where I could do not just do one thing I really enjoyed in life, but two'

I relate to all of the gratitude in the above quote. It seems almost gratuitous to be able to pursue more than one major career pathway. I feel lucky to have the opportunity and lucky to have realized that I didn't have to choose.
Some popular recipes call for creaming the sugar first and then adding the rest of the dry ingredients.
It looks like you still have to have a paid account to use this?
MacOS: install https://brew.sh/ , then 'brew cask install firefox'

Linux, e.g. 'sudo apt install snapd', then 'sudo snap install firefox' (https://snapcraft.io/install/firefox/ubuntu)
The category I'm thinking of is a subset of self-referential; a concept which is encapsulated in its expression, where it is an example of itself: "This is a sentence" or "is sentence fragment" or `<html>`. It's an admittedly fuzzy/arbitrary category that I made up. :)

> Is it non-self-referential?

Haha, nice. I also like "non-descript".

> The concept is named after the use of the word.

Cool, TIL :)
Interesting, yeah more bugs due to the complexity of multi threaded programming is the first thing that came to mind.
Read your way down this thread and note that every defence of Nix is merely shifting the blame in it's entirety to some other part of the ecosystem. Rightly or wrongly that's a big problem for Nix if it intends to gain widespread acceptance.
Computers don’t have genders.
That's why I included a pointer to your comment's original context.

This is mostly a technical problem of how comment trees that get extremely heavy having no natural way to divide themselves. Sometimes we prune them, and when we do that, we try to do it in a non-lossy way.
Control.

Getting to decide what goes into npm (the client tool) and what does not allows them to focus the ecosystem onto brands that they own and encourages people to buy their proprietary software and services.

It also provides them the option of cutting off third-party tools (e.g. yarn) in the future if they deem it beneficial.

My prediction is that they will prioritize the platform features that can only be accessed by first-party, branded tools, like the forthcoming GitHub mobile app. Eventually they will stop maintaining support for the APIs that the other tools use, and it'll be Microsoft tools from end-to-end. Pushing to GitHub and publishing to NPM from right within VS Code, et c.

Of course, using them on Windows will always work best, and deploying to Azure will always be easiest.
Author of uwdata/falcon here. I'm glad to hear you like the tool we've built.
Yep, in particular the use case is private packages.
Sorry It does not touch the borders. I can't enjoy this :)
Yep, non-canonical registries are used by business and they are more likely to pay. For example our dependency firewall will be a paid feature that delays updates from packages that are recently updated under suspicious circumstances like: author changed, author information changed, different programming language, activity after a long period of inactivity, large change to the code, etc.
Samsung s10e is like 300$ these days - has wide-angle camera and almost full body screen for the same phone size and has been released a year ago.

> literally one of the fastest phones

where are you getting that? What an absurd statement to make.
I started this way and my next step was taking advantage of the current package manager. The fact you can inject new functionality so quickly made me really fall in love with emacs. Adding additional programming modes/file format modes without any headaches has been a boon to my usage of Emacs. I'm rarely tuning settings in elisp anymore and instead just adding a feature so the file has colourization and tab stops working properly. If I do actually want to customize something since customize-mode works well enough now I can usually find the modest setting I do want to change without much hassle.
Wonderful youtube channel! I recommend it to anyone interested in retro hardware, in particular hardware reverse engineering.
Those Sony Trinitron's were literally were made of lead. My back still hurts, but the 20" was worth it!
you have my attention, do go on..
A older summary of the packet encryption is here:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Glo...
Agreed. The D70 was the best DSLR I've owned. I wish I kept it.
npm is still a disaster, but for other reasons:

$ time rm -rf node_modules/

real 1m2.969s
user 0m0.409s
sys 0m15.853s
Hoping a treatment for C19 won't work --- in essence, rooting for the virus --- is a bad look. That's as far as the analysis goes. And, again, it's a moot point.
Everything is a Value (2019)
Organizations that are filled purely with "doers" who don't make their coworkers better provide a great perpetual need for people to come in and clean up the mess later at often higher pay. :p

But maybe there's more than just "sloppy isolated doers" and "no-code-writing influencer staff timewasters"...

A doer who does help everyone around them keep the codebase clean too... well... yep, that's the influencer part. So yeah, definitely want that.
"Demoscene" is like "informatics", an ostensibly English word but used primarily by non-native speakers.
Retrotechtacular: Remembering Radio Shack P-Box Kits
I think hosting a package repo will generally create more downloads (costs money) than uploads (helps with peering but costs storage) because the average number of downloads for a package is more than 1.
I have a similar experience. I've worked with a product that consists of tens of thousands of stored procedures implementing all business logic. Because you are right next to the data you can get away with doing many thing you would have not otherwise.

Also it acted like a barrier, the core team who understood the business well worked on the stored procedures, keeping things fast and stable.

Another team was doing the tech to interface with the database and UX/UI was then implemented in various technologies in parallel and changed/got recycled every few years to whatever was in fashion.

The difference in culture between the two teams was huge, it seemed to work out well in their case.
I recently switched form spacemacs to my own config that works in a similar way.

I'm committed to modal editing and vim keybindings already, so spacemacs introduced me to emacs and got me to convert, but it is a 90% for everyone solution. It adds tons of stuff that mostly works, stuff which you specifically mostly don't need.

It mostly works, but coming from vim spacemacs is a big black box for the most part. I think it is a fantastic first step if you need to get something mostly working.

Going through and building up my own .emacs with the parts I wanted was the way I finally learned to grok emacs for real. It took that step to actually be able to understand what's happening when something unexpected happens. I also discovered a lot of alternatives to the spacemacs packages, well known by real emacs users, that I much prefer to the choices made by the spacemacs team.
You left out everything that makes the story human and resonate with the reader.
What’s emacs --version say for you? My main complaint from using a Mac laptop for so long is that I often had to download some .el packages, that are basically unnecessary with more recent emacs updates. Other than that, I’ve also got a fairly simple .emacs file modulo a few project specific “let me make this a macro for this terrible manual process I need to do”.
I'm thinking about supply side and demand side differently right now. The supply side business outcomes are going to be based on the customer profile, the financial strength, and some localized effects of the pandemic situation. I'm not sure that we'll see an '08 style credit crunch. I think governments want to stimulate and credit is one of the main levers they can try to push. I don't know if it will work to keep failures down, but I certainly think they'll try. But I think the supply side will collectively adapt as necessary to supply the demands for products and services as they exist. I think consumer demand is going to be the constraint for the next 2 years.
We put in an order with them a couple weeks ago (Monday 3/30), we didn't hear anything at all for about 2 solid weeks, and then got a shipping notification on Friday 4/10. It was shipped overnight and arrived Saturday 4/11. Hang in there!
You're welcome https://scenestream.net/demovibes/
Still the nicest displays I've ever used.
Many Roads to Recovery: How Asia Showcased Best Practices
iirc, my med school class had an above-30 social group that dubbed themselves "The Council of Elders."
Death of the small phone
That’s a great idea. Hope it happens.
Since that's also how the first sentence of the article puts it, we've put that in the title above.
> neutral experts such as Anthony Fauci

Fauci isn't close to being a neutral expert.
I object to Spacemacs not on the grounds that it works poorly, but on the grounds that if you throw all that into your config at once you will almost certainly have no idea what's causing problems or how to debug them.

Once you have a decent idea how the parts fit together, you don't really need Spacemacs, IMO.

I think the last time I tinkered with it at all was about a year and a half ago?
Debian based OS is easy: apt install firefox

Other Linux OS, consult your package manager of choice.

Mac should have curl or wget that you can use (plus safari, but we'll ignore that).

Windows has Invoke-WebRequest in Powershell that you can use (plus IE/Edge, but we'll ignore).

You can do a Google search with those command line tools to find the firefox install page and download the installer.

What prompted this question? Real problem?
Right Click > Open in new tab
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m... (and discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822)