skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you or people in your household aren't immunocompromised or in high-risk groups, you can still put your gloves and mask on and go get groceries. I live in NYC and can assure you that that is still an option. It's not totally risk-free, but the fact that stores are letting fewer people in at a time definitely helps mitigate the risk a lot.

If you are at-risk, there are huge groups doing mutual aid all across the city on a volunteer basis that are more than happy to do grocery runs for you. I'm in a slack group for Bed Stuy and I am seeing requests come in and get delivered all day long.

The idea that you need to rely on SV companies like Amazon or Instacart to bring you groceries is madness.
I'm a part time contractor so I work fewer hours, but yeah i totally get you. I'm at least as productive working fewer hours from home than more hours in the office.
Can you elaborate on what changed from one architecture to the other regarding Custom Models? it feels like it would still be easier to do that on AWS since you control more of the stack. Isn't that the case?
Any plans for free on prem version, like Gitlab?
Interestingly the equivalent of "Computational Notebooks" in computer science and programming has been around for long time. It just hasn't caught on much. Perhaps we just need better implementations, like "Jupyter for software"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
It's a funny kind of luck that requires planning and investment over many years.
I think this has a better chance of succeeding than Hacker News having a Wolfram-related thread that isn't 50% slagging the guy.
Modern sites are so bad that anything else is "genius." IMO the site needs parallax scroll and hamburger menus. /s
Hmm, are you theorizing or do you believe these things?

For instance, do you believe your life to be worth less than that of everyone else who has more money than you? What if that money was inherited and they didn't work a day in their lives? What about the life is say, Nikola Tesla who didn't have much money but laid foundations upon which a lot of our world is built today?

Is the person who negotiated for more money than you make now (while doing less useful work) have a more valuable life than yours?

Imagine you were walking with a friend of equal net worth, by your logic, if they suddenly found $100 on the ground and took it, their life is suddenly more valuable than yours? What if you both got struck with an illness and the doctor triaging said "huh, Kaiyou is worth $100 less than their friend so I guess I have to let him die and focus on the slightly wealthier person".

Have you ever enjoyed the company of someone who was economically worth less you? What of the benefits of their contributions (think of your teachers, researchers, janitors, construction workers, etc.). Assuming human value can be simply measured in made up constructs of money and debt obligations ignores a lot of what makes our experience richer

> Is it moral to replace broken things instead of trying to fix them, considering that fixing will be more expensive and the thing might just break down again after a while anyway? That's not a question about morality, is it? Except if you replace "things" with "humans". I personally do not understand why this difference exists, however.

It seems a big driver of your beliefs is that humans are worth nothing inherently. Morality enters the game entirely because we're conscious and have created morality questions and concerns for ourselves. Your shoes never quite evolved to have those questions (though if we ever achieve some loosely defined form of AGI, those questions will come into play)
Roughly what day, and what search terms have you tried? Can you remember any unusual words? How long was the thread?

Was it this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22851823
I had a job working on a piece of software that contains bits and pieces written in the 1980s. When I complained about how horribly unproductive I felt, the senior dev on the team just said, "it will take a few years to become productive." It took me a long time to internalize that and appreciate what it meant.

I think it's like becoming an architect spending your career building houses. Houses are small enough that you can reasonably expect to understand every detail of one. And when all you work on is houses, you begin to expect that you'll soon understand the totality of each product you work on.

But then you get a job working on skyscrapers. It's impossible for any single person to understand the entire structure, and you don't appreciate that fact because the concept is still foreign to you. I think a lot of companies have "skyscraper" code bases, and it's not always obvious when you're looking at one. A good hint is probably, any software that's been around for decades and enjoys widespread use is likely to be a skyscraper.
Do public repos that get banned have access cut off, or are they just forcibly made private?
I've been using Pulumi for about a year for deploying stateful and stateless services on Google Cloud Platform, AMA.
This is an illusion that was fed early on by people working on programming. The reality is that programming languages are languages, but only for a very restricted vocabulary that is not even close to what can be done on human languages. Also, being fluent in a human language involves not only reading and writing, but also talking, which as you pointed out is a considerably more complex skill.
this sounds similar to SSL resumption
Microsoft/GitHub is doing something clever this time. They know where the developers are and know that the new consumers are developers, hence 'devsumers'.

So how does Microsoft make them happy? Give 'em free stuff: Free repositories, student pack, ebooks, courses, cloud credits, etc and they come running back to GitHub. There's Sign in with GitHub which makes it easy to claim all the freebies, unlike the rest of the alternatives.

This is why the majority of developers will stay and some would realise that it will all go down and will leave Github and self-host their own git server instead.
That time is now!

https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522?hl=en
Pulumi is awesome as a concept. It worked really well when I used it with Python. I wish they supported Ruby and had better docs for their Python client.
That first sentence is a trainwreck but the steps that follow do at least clearly outline the issue.
Webmention and Microformats2 are the present and the future. They extend blogs with social features. Your blog is your profile. The blogs you follow are your feed. You can send and receive replies, likes, etc. from your own blog with Webmention. Blogs are already a decentralized social network. Webmention and Microformats2 extend what we already have.

Check out https://IndieWeb.org to learn more.
Might Be the Longest Creature Ever Seen in the Ocean
They most likely did that through triangulation, which is too coarse for contact tracing.
More than 500k ZOOM account credentials being sold on dark web
Well, one argument is that the vendors should not compile C89 code as C17. If you write C89, then stick with -std=c89 (or upgrade to the latest officially compatible revision).

It makes sense to preserve language compatibility within several language revisions, gradually sunsetting some features, but why do that for the eternity? Gradual de-supporting would push the problem to the compilers, but while it is no fun supporting, let's say, C89 and a hypothetical incompatible language C3X, this is where the effort should go (after all, companies with the old codebases can stick with older compilers). There is a great value in paving a way for a more fundamental C language simplifications and clean ups.
Were you thinking about Idris 2? (https://www.idris-lang.org/idris-2-version-010-released.html)

You should use the algolia HN search, btw (https://hn.algolia.com)
Will Google’s and Apple’s Covid Tracking Plan Protect Privacy?
Ask for some mentoring from the other participants. Try to focus on one objective that you feel you can own. Now communicate your ambition, progress and problems to others. Collaboration is the key.
That's dangerous to do here when the essay in question is written by someone with a massive cult following.
C19: You Are Not Alone – EMeetUp
Have you tried other CI/CD platforms? Different providers use different language but the workflow concept underpins all CI/CD pipelines.
Disable motd news or (parts of) the dynamic motd on Ubuntu (2019)
> But when you've copy/pasted tens of thousands of lines of YAML around all over your codebase to manage hundreds or thousands of resources, the value of abstraction, reuse, well defined interfaces, and tooling to manage that complexity feels to me essential to the scale of the problem.

You're lumping in HCL (and languages like Dhall by extension) with static serialization formats and criticizing them for a characteristic only found in the latter.

HCL is programmable and has a fair model for code reusability through modules, state outputs, for-expressions and other kinds of expressions.

Add in a proper language with types like Dhall and you have a configuration language where you can apply all the transformations you could want with a much higher safety and robustness floor than a turing-complete language that allows you to make all sorts of messes.

It's specially dangerous to have a turing-complete language for configuration once you factor in that the reflex of an inexperienced developer who is more likely to make these messes is to use a tool they're already familiar with even when the tool is actively harmful to their goals, as Pulumi facilitates.
No, but starting a small business is.
State Dept cables raised safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
I don't really see what's wrong with the URLs.
A feature that's available for free on public repos isn't necessarily free for private repos, it seems. The wording on the pricing page isn't very clear about this, though.

If they mean that they're now removing required reviewers for public repos in the free plan, that's definitely a big step backward I think.
Krugman's going to supply your steelman? Sorry, no. Krugman has a Nobel, but when he writes (at least for the last decade or two), he does so primarily as a propagandist, and secondarily (if at all) as an economist.

There's plenty of actual mainstream economists that can give you steelman responses to Austrian Economics. Don't go get them from Krugman. You won't get good steel from him; it will have too much straw in it.
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Luck favors the prepared mind, so could it be just an indicator of something deeper?

Maybe Germany has 4x as much ventilators as France, but also k times as much of many other things that matter?

I wonder if countries like France will realize they have to improve and become more like Germany instead of doubling down on their downwards spiral.
How about we let the suppliers and buyers figure that out, rather than having the government get between them with restrictions on how they can contract?
Yup. Have dozens of issues reported to security@, and responsiveness was great- usually human response same day, often in hours. H1 is veeeery slow by comparison, but, hey, I've made five figures off it so...
So what you're saying is the language should not be able to work with pre-existing files whose names are not valid UTF-8?
There's one here:
https://www.mixingmetaphors.dev/conways-game-of-life/
OpenID Connect is the standardized AuthN process built on top of OAuth. It’s “on top of” but in practice it’s a simplification if OAuth for the specific purpose of AuttN
Here is an example I have at hand that shows that when you are using an optimizing compiler, there is no such thing as “just pointers to addresses in memory”. There are plenty more examples, but I do not have the other ones at hand.

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/Budx3n
One interesting thing that I can see there is that the current excess for many countries seem to be no worse so far from a larger excess in the early weeks of 2017.

Another very surprising thing is to see no excess mortality in Sweden, a country criticized for a laxer strategy against COVID-19.

I was not expecting to see that.
I think it's quite obvious that UTF-8 is the better choice over UTF-16 or UTF-32 for exchanging data (if just for the little/big endian mess alone, and that UTF-16 isn't a fixed-length encoding either).

From that perspective, keeping the data in UTF-8 for most of its lifetime also when loaded into a program, and only convert "at the last minute" when talking to underlying operating system APIs makes a lot of sense, except for some very specific application types which do heavy text processing.
C17 doesn't look much different than C89. If you are used to K&R C there may be some adjustment but I would expect it to be manageable.

What might perhaps be more challenging is adjusting to the changes in compilers. They tend to optimize code more aggressively and so writing code that closely follows the rules of the language (rather than making assumptions about the underlying hardware, even valid ones) is more important today than it was back in the 80's.
It's not really arguable. Gibson wrote punk literature, at least back then; he identified himself as a punk subculture writer, and punk isn't utopian. He was not describing a desirable future, but a depressing one where soulless corporations rule the world.

> But the sentence above is a very escapist attitude

Escapism can be pessimistic, as in Gibson. It's not him who "escapes", it's the denizens of the soulless world he described, and the "world" they escape to can be just as alienating. It's no triumph to "escape" to Gibson's matrix, and his world continues to be a crapsack [1][2].

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[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsackWorld

[2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CrapsackWorld/Literat...
I still get a Pro option when going to https://github.com/account/upgrade from a free account, and it seems to match Teams, here's the blurb:

> Required reviewers in private repos

> Protected branches in private repos

> Repository insights in private repos

> Wikis in private repos

> Pages in private repos

> Code owners in private repos

> 3,000 minutes for GitHub Actions

> 2GB of storage for packages
Predicting the Solar Potential of Rooftops Using Image Segmentation
I'm late to the party and not the person you asked, but I've been trying to work through https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0817683038
It's good so far.
has there ever been good news about hackerone?
If you open your network tab in your browser's devtools, there may be JSON payloads to give you what you need (rather than farting around with OCR or reverse image searching your album art).
Why would you redistribute wealth into the hands of irrational people?
If the author sells 5℅ of the space, they will have made 50k from a project probably thrown together over a weekend. That would not be a bad return!
Not an answer, but may be add "Ask HN" to the title?
GitHub absolutely does compete for on-prem installation.

Source: we use an on-prem installation at Vimeo
It doesn't even have to be advertising in newspapers.

I live a block away from a shopping complex; the "anchor store" is a chain grocery but there are other businesses ranging from restaurants, drycleaners, a smoke shop, an alcohol store, and so forth.

There is a local movie theater in this complex. It is obviously shuttered due to COVID19; no audience means no movies means no popcorn, &c. So their marquee "should" be blank or say "Closed". Instead, they are using their road-side marquee to advertise who in the complex is opened for take-out.

I don't know if this is out of "solidarity" or if they're getting a trickle of money for an otherwise unused resource, but I'm fine about it either way.
So did a lot of other people who aren’t extreme narcissists.

I think it’s reasonable to find someone’s work admirable and yet think they have terrible personalities.
There is a line of thought were people should be judged by what they create rather than how they behave, but luckily not many subscribe to it. Not even grown-up Linus Torvalds subscribes to it.
So basically this: https://xkcd.com/505/ huh Stephen?

-Question has anyone validated and/or disproved his Geometric Rules based approach and NKS Cellular automata against traditional physics models and found predictable conclusions that can be tested via experiment? IE is it really anything other alternative notation/representation system?

It essentially presupposes a computational canvas to the universe,but in what substrate does this computation happen?

Obviously the guy has an ego the size of a black hole (and probably as insecure about it, since the whole website (beautifully produced of course) has no community forum, comment section or space for peer review about the theories he presents..

He really needs to get away from sycophants in his company and engage with outside world. Citing others would help. New perspectives on physics and mathematical descriptions of the universe are welcome and I'm sure there is plenty of insights to be found..who knows exactly, since the investment in learning and understanding his approach requires substantial effort to decode and without prediction . sad to see how little things like a ego of one little man can both be a source of insight and frustration at the same time..
This makes perfect sense, bravo. Go straight to the most general structure possible and try to understand which part of the infinite mathematical structure of the multiverse we inhabit. How interesting that within all possible structures they have found objects that so readily match up with our own reality.
Github Enterprise is on-premises:

https://github.com/enterprise

That only really leaves the fact that its OSS that differentiates Gitlab in your list. Not comparing the two, just making sure you're aware.
Nobody has that as a letter on the keyboard here though, so it doesn't matter. Normally typed as a digraph. Would be nice if we just switched over to using y at this point. Makes me wonder, is the use of diacritics reducing since ascii keyboards became the norm ?
Belly, My Best Friend
Not really. Its just a number in the books. Whoever made that decision decades ago, got it right, luckily. But that's about it.

Had this virus affected the kidneys instead of the lungs, the outcome would have been way different.

Also, over the last week, mortality has been increasing here as well. So better "den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben".
As an entrepreneur, with a company that relies on paid advertising, this is a FANTASTIC time. Our cost per lead has cut in half. And I just hired three people last week, to capitalize on the higher lead flow.

I'm sure it depends on the business sector. But for any company that can operate in this environment, this is the time to spend MORE on ads, not less.
Hi, I did you algolia HN search, but couldn't find it.

Sadly, this is not the language I'm looking for, but thank you for sharing it
I'm not a security expert. I am a software engineer; as such make it my responsibility to understand something of network security, but I have no formal training in such and I don't work in a specifically security-focused role. Nor do I work for an explicitly security-focused company.

I understood the issue clearly on first read.

You're absolutely right that it could have been explained more clearly, and that there is some ambiguity in the wording (not everyone's a perfect communicator). But if I (a very normal, non-security-focused software engineer) can grok this, it's the absolute least I would expect from someone working for HackerOne! Their entire job is to be able to understand this sort of thing in depth.
I'm not sure about actions, but GitLab[1] and BitBucket[2] have the ability to import issues.

[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html

[2]: https://confluence.atlassian.com/get-started-with-bitbucket/...
From Alcibiades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades to Michael Bloomberg, it's always the elites who sell out their country. Of course it's only the elites who have have something of value enough on that scale to sell. Love of country is for the hoi polloi.
People use a lot of words rooted in negative energy and emotion....like "afraid". What, may I ask do you fear?
Take a look at "Modern C" :)

https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/latestfile/5298/Mod...

(Homepage: https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/ )
You mean Microsoft's latest attempt at Web Forms/Silverlight, a product that yet again tries to muddy the separation between client and server execution contexts using magic.

Seems like every generation re-invents this idea, and every time it fails for the same fatal flaw: Illusions are just that, and you'll wind up hacking around the illusion if you want to do something not envisioned (or run into a bug in the secret sauce).

And before someone replies "it is nothing like Web Forms!!!" here's a direct quote from Blazor's homepage:

> Blazor can run your client logic on the server. Client UI events are sent back to the server using SignalR - a real-time messaging framework. Once execution completes, the required UI changes are sent to the client and merged into the DOM.

That's literally how Web Forms worked.
I remember the pain of trying to get just that last few bits of LMA necessary to get "Frontier Elite II" working. IIRC it needed something like 600k out of the 640k to be available, something that was nigh on impossible with the standard MS-DOS mouse drivers available at the time. They'd take up some 20k or so of the LMA, leaving my system at about 590k of free LMA, no matter how you tried to get them to use UMA.

I got given a mouse driver by a cousin who'd bought a new mouse that came with a driver that put most of itself in HMA and only a couple of k of LMA. That finally made it easy to have sufficient RAM left over.

I had a few minor issues with that driver, so I'd keep two copies of autoexec.bat around, one for when I wanted to play Frontier, and one for when I wanted to do anything else.
Worked from home for years. Office with large round table, desk, side-table, bookcases, cabinet for equipment.

12-processor 64GB desktop with dual monitors. Multiple wifi plus wired connections.

Multiple laptops, old CPU cabinets against one wall waiting to be recycled, extra monitors strewn about, printers, UPSs, client hardware in various states of disassembly/debug cabled and debug modules. Old disk drives stacked here and there.
> I'm suggesting the station help them with better webcams and mics, and tips/help for their setup, like where to put the table lamp.

The issue is likely the suddenness of the shift.

The news studio likely had whatever number of 'field' cameras/mics/lights they use for those "on site" shots, plus a few spares of each to cover for the normal damage that would occur from "in the field" use.

But they very likely did not have enough spares to give the twelve on-air personalities that make up a typical broadcast their own local gear, and still have enough "field" equipment to do those "on site" shots they want to do anyway.

The problem is very likely simple logistics. They had not, ever, planned to have every on air personality who normally works the studio all working from home at the same time, and so they simply did not have enough spare equipment to outfit everyone all at the same time.
I have a similar reaction to the WFH hype. I prefer to be in the office but can WFH fine as long as I can interact with others remotely but I’m chafing a little at the “See I told you WFH works, companies will change their mind on WFH policies and the future will be glorious!”

I think it comes from discussions as if there is a right to WFH and they’re owed it which can come off a little self righteous and off putting.

The status quo bias is an interesting point, thanks for bringing that up.
Restaurants are selling groceries now