skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It could be their statement "folly requires gcc 5.1+" meant gcc 5.1 or greater, where clang might be greater?

Reminds me of an old joke: "The package said it required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux."

They'd save a lot of guessing by putting in which Special Modern Features their code relies on.
Serving up the pre-packaged/airplane shots would be fitting.
The 65W is a bit misleading, according to https://www.techpowerup.com/265695/intel-core-i9-10900f-can-... and https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-10900f-10-core-desktop-cp... it is allowed to draw 170W in PL1 mode and up to 224W(!) in PL2 mode.

Those numbers should feature prominently alongside the 65W figure.

It does not look good for Intel at the moment.
And the CCP an Iran are a human rights paradise compared to Saudi Arabia.

If we are talking about principles here.
I've never really heard this from anyone that is actually technical. I think people with actual technical skills and joy would be quite impressed by mainframe systems.

The issue for management is you can't copy someone else's strategy like hiring random fungible devs so easily, you need to invest in some training and retaining. So if you're a stuffed shirt the easiest thing to do to explain your lack of leadership and foresight is to point to the mysterious system and point to other companies doing (x, y or z) and say you need to be more like them in a copycat way with little consideration for the difficulty or success of the existing business and systems. The evergreening that goes on in tech is extremely low dividend activity for any business but the new employees and new vendors make a lot of money until they too are out fashioned.
you might also post that on https://old.reddit.com/r/COVIDProjects/
No way. I go walking every day
> Things to do while saving the human race.

We are not facing an existential threat.
A look at how the false theory around 5G and Covid-19 gained widespread coverage
EventReduce is a simple algorithm. It does not care or affect how you handle propagation of writes or how you handle your events, transactions or conflicts.

See it as a simple function that can do oldResults+event=newResults like shown in the big image on top of the readme.
The host would prove that the source available online is the exact same code running on the instance, so you know that it wasn't modified by the developer/bad-guy before it went into production.
> as opposed to "black light"

BTW, the "black" on a CRT is almost a true black. The electron beam is off when the signal voltage is less/equal to the black level, there's no "black light" if the black level is perfectly calibrated. Displaying a black image fullscreen is indistinguishable from an endless vertical/horizontal blanking interval from a practical standpoint. There's a measurable decrease in power consumption, although it's not much (it can be great enough on a large TV, though).

On the other hand, VESA blanking mode turns off additional circuitry, and it can save a lot of power while still keeping the CRT heater on, suspending the screen without the disadvantages of a long wakeup time or stressing the tube.
Excerpt:

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o Exception handling

The libunwind API makes it trivial to implement the stack-manipulation aspects of exception handling.

o Debuggers

The libunwind API makes it trivial for debuggers to generate the call-chain (backtrace) of the threads in a running program.

o Introspection

It is often useful for a running thread to determine its call-chain. For example, this is useful to display error messages (to show how the error came about) and for performance monitoring/analysis."
> CA certificate signing is orthogonal to encryption.

Yes in the broad sense and no in the specific case.

In order to activate macOS Mail encryption you need a certificate on your keychain. So by having a CA issue you a certificate, the mail client can generate the keys to encrypt that mail without additional passwords (e.g., relying on in-situ authentication). So in this application they are interrelated.
This is the position we're in (our 'legacy' pricing will go away this year). We've decided to just eat it.
I have a:

- Dell U3818DW 38" curved monitor 3840x1600

- Dell U2718Q 27" monitor 3840x2160

- Herman Miller Aeron chair with big (3") wheels on it for carpet.

- My main computer is a Lenova X1 Extreme (15") running Windows

- A couple of Lenova X1 Carbon (13") laptops running Linux

- I'm hooked on Logitech K750 keyboards and MX Anywhere mice
Would something like paperspace be a good platform for software development? My slow computer doesn't handle IntelliJ that well. Instead of buying a new PC I could rent this for a few hours at a time.
> predicting button presses to buffer a stream before they happen

That sounds a lot like the server and client-side prediction (or p2p 'rollback') netcode that is in a lot of online games.
Stopping new Stripe Capital offers during the COVID-19 pandemic is completely understandable, but feels like it wasn't really well communicated to long-term clients.

Will you continue to originate new Strike Capital offers? When?
Are employees supposed to make gains on their equity based compensation when their company underperforms? Isn't this a risk you take when joining a startup? Thus far the only thing Uber has ever proved successful at, financially, was taking VC money. So it sounds like what you're asking for is that startup employees be allowed to siphon vc funds into their personal bank accts.
I agree. I'm not arguing this is 'fact', just an interesting correlation - until proven anything stronger than that - that would explain why some countries got hit worse than others.

As someone else pointed out, the BCG needs a booster. While growing up I was given the initial one and two boosters. Most countries stopped doing that, which could also explain the effect. There's also the matter of which strain was used to create the vaccine: apparently some strains were better at fighting tuberculosis than others, so the same might apply (if the BCG vaccine actually made a difference) to COVID-19.

Anyway, my objective wasn't to start a conspiracy theory. We already have enough of those going around.
I get mixed messages. The front page says

> Moving your workflow into the cloud gives you the best hardware and networking performance possible, and helps you work on the tough stuff a normal computer just won’t do.

This is then followed by their "Advanced" specs @ 6vCPUs, 16GB RAM and 2GB VRAM. That's a mid-range laptop.
Are there links to more recent discussions on CFRG? Did you take any of the critiques from CFRG to heart? I think the v1/v2 local/public points were well-taken.
Why Are Blueprints Blue?
NYC's case count is 111k and we know it's very low even vs. symptomatic people. The population is 8.4 million people. This is 1.3%.

Serological data from a random sample of the German town of Gangelt shows that even a robust testing regime missed about 90% of the cases. The known per-capita case count at the time of the study was similar to New York City's, but 14% of the sample carried antibodies to COVID-19.

The German testing regime is and has been considerably better than what's been in NYC. I'm inclined to think that an even bigger multiple of the known case count may have been exposed in NYC than in Gangelt.

Separately, Iceland keeps their test data in two bins; one for people with a known exposure history and any (even minor) symptoms, and one for members of the general population without a known exposure history or symptoms. Analysis of this data suggests about 50% of people never develop symptoms and don't have any known exposure history, in an area with a much more robust testing regime.
It has an effect on other businesses but it'll be far from a "blood bath"
I apologize for the uncharitable reading and response. I have a number of friends with immune disorders and heart issues through no fault of their own, and I was too hasty in my response. It is true that all of the decisions to be made going forward are unpalatable. Sadly, I don't think that any of the ones that are least likely to hurt us in the long run will be chosen. Stay safe out there.
Why False Claims About Covid-19 Refuse to Die
This is a really interesting technical write-up, but please no.

Adding more streaming to the cloud bullshit only adds dependencies, points of failure, costs and energy consumption. Especially when it's for playing games that can easily be emulated on any phone today.

Humanity's first goal should be to reduce its energy consumption! This is the opposite of the way forward.
I don't know about purely remote, but I use Emacs, and I've been doing most of my work through TRAMP mode (which uses SSH to access a remote shell and load/save/list files).

I'm working with Clojure mainly right now, so I TRAMP into my large dev machine, and CIDER will automatically connect the interactive REPL, debugger, etc. through SSH rather than locally. All of the editor functionality; syntax highlighting, keys, extra modes etc.; is running on the local machine, but the running instance and the filesystem are remote. It's a good way to go.

The other thing I've done in the past is use Syncthing to sync the working directory between a remote and a local machine; but this can have some latency issues (it generally takes about a second for a saved file to sync, probably because of internal anti-thrashing timers in Syncthing), so TRAMP is much better.
Implicit vs. Explicit Tracking
That's morbidly interesting but I don't think it's fair to tar scottlocklin with that brush. That's a severe accusation, a smear if untrue, and I've not seen any evidence of it. In fact his comment upthread expresses a contradictory view, just in a 'pox on all your houses' way.
If your use case is gaming, does Linux support matter much? If anything I would think this would be for someone who has a Linux setup but wants to access games that aren't available.
Those are two different questions.

> What would you suggest to a newbie getting his feet weight into programming?

Learn assembly.

(Something tidy like the AVR chip used in Arduinos: ATMega328P microcontroller, or the PIC.)

Then learn a little about C and the asm that it compiles into. (Again, don't try to learn e.g. x86. It's a monster. Most C compilers can target AVR or PIC.)

If you start at the bottom and go up you'll do fine.

Do NOT start with e.g. Javascript or PHP or even Ruby or Python, it'll wreck you.

> How did you master a programming language?

Someone once said to Yoyo Ma, "I'd give my life to play like you do." To which he replied, "I did."

"Do it every day."
BlurHash – a compact representation of a placeholder for an image
What have I said to indicate I'm a fan of Elon Musk or Tesla? I've described his actions as "irresponsible" and "unethical" several times in this comment thread.

I'd appreciate if you would refrain from associating me with groups you do not like just because you disagree with me. It's not constructive and it discourages people from challenging the thoughts of the groups they prefer to associate with.
With Matlab, you can immediately create a Matrix and transpose it, find the inverse...etc. I think it is optimized really well for undergraduate excercises that are really simple (I have two numerical methods textbooks which use Matlab fine). I agree that anything more complex than a couple of functions and a loop is probably better off somewhere else in a lot of cases. With that being said, it has built-in support for GUIs, sparse matrices and other stuff which is a lot harder in C++, so easy to see why it is popular for academic and R&D type work. For a student, the commercial cost is only ~$30 or free at a lot of schools, so usually not a barrier.
Top: Best Gaming Monitor 2020
reposted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890955
Is it possible to just pay a shipping container company up front to use materials that are more friendly for repurposing, with an agreement that you buy it after it is used? That way you wouldn’t necessarily need to strip and repaint it.
This is pretty fantastic, not just for working out. Kudos!
Providing Interactive Analytics on Excel with Billions of Rows
The iPad cameras in this article are significantly lower-quality than iPhone cameras, other than the LiDAR sensor. So it's definitely cheaper than the larger sensors and optics in new iPhones.
Whatever guide they were using must of been terrible. Unfortunately they failed to specify which one it was so it is hard to know what went wrong here. Still, as learning experiences go this could of been much worse.

I suspect that most people would just of used some sort of email client with this stuff built in rather than doing it completely manually...
Tips for Finally Starting Your Dream Business in 2020
The Spark takes reasonably decent video. There's no reason why you couldn't share it.
Ask HN: Will AI be able to create a more perfect programming language?
This article prompted me to ask if an AI can produce self-modifying code, wouldn't tend to evolve into a programming language better than any we have now?

https://www-newsweek-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.newsweek...
The fact that C doesn't have the feature makes it difficult if I want to perform that task!
$5 digitalocean
TIL objdump --visualize-jumps…
This session will teach you how to get lightning-fast query performance on Microsoft Excel that reliably scales into the petabytes – and supports any number of users.
No. My original comment wasn't worded well, sorry. See my clarification above.
For the We've had a problem link, use this - https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=055:55:18

https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=055:52:58 is the order to stir the cryo tanks
i think your pricing is off - https://www.maharajas-express-india.com/fare.html
Service Meshes, Kiali, and Continuous Verification
Art & Fear? It's also the third-highest-score comment on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yeah, but the mobo manufacturer has to plan on you putting in the thirstiest chips on there, when you might be putting lower end chips on because your workload is mostly memory or PCI channel constrained and you are looking to max out the density in the rack.

Of course you also have to consider the cooling capacity of your chassis. 170W in a 1U form factor needs a hell of a lot of airflow to avoid thermal throttling, especially on a dual CPU motherboard. Plus you gotta fit the power supply and everything else in there.
I've had that exact experience with EdgeCast, it worked great before Verizon and went to shit within 12 months of acquisition. We cancelled at the first opportunity after the acquisition.
Let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
ie you get some to check where the model and the annotations disagree.
Why Haskell Matters
Great idea! Tried it with mum, worked quite well!
My local is actually doing takeaway beer (they had a license for it before this), and it has been so popular that they keep running out of cartons.
I don't see how const would save memory, unless you have a separate ROM region that keeps that out of the main memory.
The "Documentation" section actually shows you what it does (better than the FAQ explanation some have mentioned)

https://www.mailvelope.com/en/help

It's free for personal use, but there's also some paid tiers. As far I can tell it looks like the only thing Mailvelope does that is outside of the extension/your-local-machine is host their own key server: https://www.mailvelope.com/en/faq#key_server

Unless there's something also it does that I'm missing?

FYI, it's open source: https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope
The Guy Who Steps Up: Guy Fieri on the Importance of Giving Back
Nothing from 2020 yet. XChaCha has to be prioritized first.
Ask your recruiter.
You mean kind of a chaos monkey, but for people?
U.S. says China may have conducted low-level nuclear test blasts
That's a better deal, since you get a GTX 1080 and 12 GB of RAM for $15 per month, whereas Paperspace is more like $60 per month for the same box.

Is Paperspace overpriced or is Shadow burning cash? I'd think of the latter.
The problem with those reasonable-sounding complaints is that the first paragraph is so out-there. I guarantee you that far less than 30% of HN is in favor of this. You're grossly overestimating the appeal of your posts.

You're also assuming that people are downvoting and flagging based on disagreement alone, which is incorrect. Many downvotes and flags are because they identify a comment as flamebait or otherwise guideline-breaking. I personally downvote and/or flag many comments that I agree with (i.e. that are on 'my' side of an issue), because I disagree with how they're using HN. Similarly, I upvote many comments that I disagree with, if they're following the guidelines and are interesting contributions. A lot of HN users use the site like this—enough to counteract a lot of downvotes-for-mere-disagreement.

So if your comments are being routinely downvoted and flagged, you'd do better to consider how you might not really be using HN as intended, rather than just blaming "mainstream narrative believers".

By the way, I hope you saw my invitation to you about the game you wrote about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22842351. See the final paragraph in my reply.
CEO of Paperspace here. I'm really sorry about this. That is not the experience that we are striving for and FWIW, since leaving beta, Gradient is much more mature at this point (many millions of hours of runtime and lots of developer work). We have been aggressively stabilizing (and building out new features) over the past few years and continue to improve the product every release. My sincerest apologies for your negative experience early on I hope you will give it another try.
Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf]
A lot of live electronic music performances involve some pretty serious showmanship.
5 reasons why the James Webb Space Telescope is such a big deal
>it definitely has the "Chicken & Egg" problem is that you need the hardware so developers can develop, and you need the software to justify having the hardware.

Although it's worth pointing out that the "Chicken & Egg" problem actually has a real life answer that applies equally to a lot of scenarios it's posited. In terms of "which came first" the answer is definitively eggs, with macrolecithal eggs and birds themselves evolving from dinosaurs and other previous ancestors. Evolution sees use of "existing hardware" which then undergoes incremental change, competitive ones of which are kept.

Similarly, in a developed platform you don't actually need software to justify incremental advances in hardware. The justification for the hardware is all the other already useful stuff it does and has inherited from previous generations. Apple, and other established platform companies, can get away with bootstrapping from the hardware side that way. Just as with other evolutionary processes sometimes there are even things that just fail to stick (like Force Touch) for better or worse, but even dead ends don't kill the whole platform. I guess it's also kind of another side of a certain degree of dominating market power. Often it's used for ill, but sometimes certain kinds of monopolies and lock-in can also give companies more freedom to experiment and look for longer term gains even if it's not justified in the next few quarters.

At any rate work got a few of these and it wasn't for LIDAR at all, wouldn't change the value if it never did anything. Except for an odd network issue I'm working through they're nice upgrades from previous iPad Pros so far. But from this demo LIDAR certainly could be put to real use in some architectural brainstorming for example, so happy to see it there.
Ten Nine Hundred scans much better. I'd expect it to be what people settle on. Sort of like the Lockheed L Ten Eleven.
Please tell me it's to fund a massive expansion of Stripe Press! I want more books like The Dream Machine!

I just looked at your site and saw a book about Prince of Persia I hadn't seen before. I'm trying not to buy any more books because my stack is already too big but it's really tempting...
Correct. (Although, the pointers being defined that way seems to make it quite unlikely that the compiler could optimize this incorrectly…)
The Psychology of Espionage (2017) [pdf]
How to SBT and Docker BuildX and Multi-Arch
I don't think this is a particularly interesting take. Google's utility c++ library isn't that different from eg underscore.js (or lodash)

Google uses some boost code and plenty of other external libraries (I can't speak to Facebook but imagine it's similar) - I think the point is just that Facebook and Google have an enormous amount of c++ code and have thus created libraries (some of which are fundamental enough or self-contained enough to open source)

This is just what happens when a bunch of engineers are all working in the same language - the utility libraries become large enough, robust enough and useful enough to open source

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As an aside, I think the similarities between folly and absl say something more meaningful about the state of c++
The problem with theoretical physics, in my external perception, is more political, within academia.

- selecting for the H index, that is, what will be most cited, leading to strong convergence around "consensual" or "popular" research, at a huge detriment to diversity of ideas

- one negative effect is a major push for incremental publication (equivalent of a LOC KPI for coders... it's just wrong). “What did you publish this year? How many times was your name in a paper somewhere?”

- putting funds and institutional support behind people you like as opposed to people with the most promising ideas. That's pretty much the story of string theory, and see how despite the failure they are still "winning" politically, occupying top positions and feeding the mainstream vulgarization, whereas those who "lost" decades ago are still AWOL even as their ideas are freshened up by a new generation, whose future against the institutional pyramid is all but guaranteed.

We might still be there (a situation of total stagnation, since the 1970s, at the theoretical level) by 2040 if something doesn't change profoundly in the way university politics have such a compelling handle on research, thus on our progress in science in general.

My 2cts but I'm parroting, people who now speak up in academia.

What I do know about, ML, is all but dead currently in MIT, Stanford, etc. It's just monkey coding applying whatever the industry likes for short-term benefits (again this "incremental"-only approach, playing it safe with 0.001% gains that are, sure, predictably doable). There's no actual research on "AI" let alone the general notion of "intelligence". Not even in neuro. I fear we've lost sight of the importance of basic research, as basic as it gets in a given field, because industry deals run the show in terms of funding. Yet look what Bell Labs or MIT did in the 1970-80s, surfing on the last wave of fundamental breakthroughs of the 50-60s. These days are long gone.
And people wonder why I am still a bit skeptical of self-driving cars....
The reasons to boycott Spoons have been piling up for years. The strongarming of breweries, the use of the pubs as a pro-Brexit platform... and the bloke in charge is a notorious bellend.

Wetherspoons is cheap, but it's not a net good. (Truth be told I stopped eating there after being served a frozen curry - literally solid ice.)
Yeah, what's happening in Ecuador is incredibly sad. My whole family is in Argentina and I was worried sick for them for a while... who knows, this BCG theory gives me some hope things will be better for them than they are here. Fingers crossed.