skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The defaults. They aren't very good, IMO. Many users don't want to spend time with customizing, they want a system which works instantly with language plugins, and so on. VSCode does a very good job at that.

Emacs is for people who like to deeply personalize their editors. That's why I use it. But it takes time and learning elisp and many people are unwilling to do that.
The WHO team was instrumental in getting the Chinese to report accurate infection rates, within 2 days of them arriving in country the reporting system was completely overhauled and they started reporting clinically diagnosed cases as well as positive tests at a time when testing capacity was minimal. This was a crucial contribution in illuminating the scale of the outbreak early on. Before that they, like everyone else, was almost entirely dependent on information from the Chinese government.

The WHO had developed a test kit, was distributing it and was helping countries ramp up production at a time when the US was making a complete mess of testing. Many third world countries are heavily dependent on WHO expertise and support. This move is a knife in their backs.

Honestly, who has the best track record of tackling this issue and taking it seriously. The WHO, or a man who was calling it a hoax 6 weeks after the WHO had alerted of possible international transmission?
*written almost entirely in assembly language, he says so himself in the video.
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> Only a tiny minority of users can't access package repos.

That sounds like a verifiable claim. Do you have any proof?
That formulation comes from a Paul Krugman opinion piece from 2017:

"Facts Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/opinion/facts-have-a-well...

Krugman used the similar "The Facts Have A Well-Known Center-Left Bias" in 2016:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160509144531/https://krugman.b...

Stephen Colbert's 2006 Press Correspondents' Dinner roast used the line "reality has a well-known liberal bias"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_Wh...

https://invidio.us/watch?v=2X93u3anTco

Rob Corddry in 2004 gave the similar "facts themselves are biased" and "facts in Iraq have an anti-Bush agenda" on Jon Stewert's Daily Show:

Corddry: How does one report the facts in an unbiased way when the facts themselves are biased?

Stewart: I'm sorry, Rob, did you say the facts are biased?

Corddry: That's right Jon. From the names of our fallen soldiers to the gradual withdrawal of our allies to the growing insurgency, it's become all too clear that facts in Iraq have an anti-Bush agenda.

http://www.slapnose.com/archives/2004/05/04/the_liberal_bias...
This is great news. I can now move some of my projects from BitBucket to GitHub.

However, I wish GitHub supported GitHub Pages for private repositories for free as well.
>A lot of people comparing this to 1929,

* Greatest downturn since the depression doesn't imply the mechanics are the same. It's a comparison of scale.

* Unlimited QE isn't free. TINSTAAFL.

* The stock market is not the economy.

* The economy isn't the US economy (it is global)

I'm a proponent of what the Fed, and central banks around the world, are doing. But I feel like people are viewing this as a "pandemic passes, back to normal" situation. There were cracks beginning to show in the late cycle of the economy for over a year. The pandemic just happened to be the exogenous shock, and a bad one at that.

Remember, we just got through a decade long bull-market that mostly benefited the asset-rich classes. We have unbelievably polarized politics around the world. There's evidence of corruption in all of our institutions. Are we really ready to handle this?
I kinda hope they don't go down that path: the over-the-top, kitchen-sink-ness absurdity is what I love about Emacs. I've only been using it for a few years, so I'm still stumbling down crazy rabbit-holes (more like, giant caverns) of functionality and tools that I never knew were there - and can't believe that they'd bundle in by default.

Sure I'll probably never need most of the stuff - but it make me happy to know it's there... and is great fun to explore: especially if you're on an 18 hour flight with no wifi!
If they are old, they aren't SMR. In the article it is stated that only past year's models are affected. SMR itself is also only a few years old.
RAID only protects you from disk failures, not machine failures. If you want to protect against machine failures (whole server offline), which might be an availability concern, then you would naturally want to replicate the data at a higher level. Once you’re doing that, it makes sense to only replicate the data at a higher level, because for a given level of safety, it is more efficient to replicate the data once, in one layer, than to replicate the data multiple times, at multiple layers.

RAID is only effective for workloads small enough that you care about a single machine.
Blockchain allows to send stuff pseudonymously (bitcoin, ethereum, komodo…) or anonymously (monero, Zcash, pirates...), and allow to get a decentralized system, with high level of privacy and control. Seems to me that can be useful for a more privacy in the contact tracing system, especially for contacting people at risk...
But I am no specialist, maybe people in HN could share their expertise...
That's a great thing to say but how do you do the enforcement like that? Do you expect the police to just know who's homeless? Take their word for it? Do you have them hand out citations and take it up in court?

I can't see any of these as good options.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/g1di7w/wd_admi...
I learned a hard lesson in one of my start-ups - the company is NOT your child. That start-up did in fact give me a sense of satisfaction that I was making the world a better place (think of the Rural Electrification act's effects). I worked for another 15 years at a company I really didn't care about. It wasn't as satisfying but I also didn't have an emotional attachment to it. Now (I'm over 50), I think I've found a balance ... I find my work fulfilling but it isn't the only the that defines my mood. I would say that perhaps you need a different job but you'll have to decide what you're passionate about.
These people are just placing bets on who will most efficiently exploit what predicted output work the proletariat might do divided by the sum total of ruthlessness of all competition.
That, or I get way better at mathematics. At this rate, I think Moore's law will win. Apparently TSMC is mass-producing 5nm chips and they're building their 3nm fab...
I hope we strengthen and cross link our food supply chains on a local and regional basis like this more in the future.

Having most everyone in a city or neighborhood buying from a single chainlink or two isn’t a very resilient system, nor does it make for very efficient markets.

Commodities like flour should be available sort of like data on ipfs; the problem is, of course, trust and risk of tampering. Hopefully it won’t be much of an issue and more decentralized supply chains can emerge, making more opportunities for more people.

I’d love to be able to be a local cache node in the food supply chain (or web, perhaps), as I imagine others would be.
If a CISO looks at this, she might think "great, so anyone entering a commercial relationship with Atlassian can now eventually take control of the boards of some of my employees ?".

And that's not good PR.
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It seems like a lot of people have seen the light now and are evaluating Keycloak even though it has been around for so long.

did something happen recently that I'm missing out on?
It’s going to be even worse when the second wave hits. Politicians cowing to the demands of their donor base are laying the runway to “reopen” the economy, knowing the loss of life that will entail in the absence of any meaningful preparation.

South Korea has shown that it’s entirely possible to remain “open,” with massive testing, alert systems, and on demand health access expansions. But none of the people arguing that this is necessary are not doing anything similar to prepare and respond.
In an age where most people are doing anything they can to help, it is curious that the manufacturer specifically stated this isn’t possible without ‘significant rework’

https://www.resmed.com/en-us/covid-19/

Maybe it is my startup background, but a weekend of reflashing devices seems pretty straightforward.

Even if the devices failed after a couple weeks due to use outside designed conditions it could get us through the peak or until more could be built.
What made-up number did you expect?
Why not write is like this:

#ifdef SOME_CONST
#define HAS_SOME_CONST \
... for SOME_CONST ...
#else
#define HAS_SOME_CONST \
... when SOME_CONST not defined ...
#endif

#define WHATEVER(w, h, a, t, e, v, e, r) \
... common part ... \
... HAS_SOME_CONST ... \
... common part continued ...
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SoftBank/Vision Fund: wind-up wager
Finland adds the demoscene as a UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage
Agree that power is the biggest limitation on drone/swarm concepts. Small engines / rotors are just not as efficient.

It is interesting to consider the change in tactics and design once you consider the fighter expendable. You don't have to turn away once you get shot at in-range -- you can keep flying and shoot at the point of maximum impact. The aircraft might only be designed to last for 10 combat hours, or to have a poor safety record. For example, in aircraft the design margin is ~1.5 (vs >2 for surface); for unmanned it might be ~1.1.

The drone-vs-human tactics will persist until both sides have competent drones, at which point they might evolve to look more like human-vs-human tactics: protect your high value assets, imperil theirs.
Good points. The hyperconnected world did not exist back then. It will definately make a big difference to outcomes.

I have been quite surprised the internet remained up, in different parts that were hit really bad.
Doing a fair amount of work in web dev world in recent years, we've always self-hosted one way or another, but the newbies look at you all strange like if you tell them. Then again, half of them also don't realise that Git and GitHub are different things.
The Natural Remedies for Migraines
Didn’t know about this possibility. It’s a good idea to archive it locally and update regularly (just in case something happens with internet ;). Is the same possible for melpa?
>The US missed the worst of hospitals being overrun and it running away in multiple cities.

I want to add ", so far" to the end of that sentence. I do not hold hope that this will be true as we fight among ourselves to reopen various portions of the country/economy.
Only my personal experience. I never encountered a situation in my professional life where I couldn't access the net.

How is it verifiable? Is there some statistics of this?
This!

I feel exactly the same. I’ve had a great career within web development and UX design, in pretty significant ways, but it’s still not fulfilling and I’ve lost purpose in it.

I’ve turned my UX interest towards city planning, and I focus more on nature, farming, exercising. Whatever energy I have left I spend on a few startups.

Also, I’ve gone through all the medical and psychological steps to be a helicopter pilot (old dream) and I’m applying to schools at this very moment.

Looking to make the switch more permanent soon, I still have a day job as frontend developer.

Purpose and intention is all.
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The IMF is predicting the global economy will contract by 3% this year, which would be the worst since the great depression.

However what made the Great Depression so painful was its depth, scope and length. The US experienced 4 straight years of negative growth in 1930s (up to -12%) and in many ways the economy did not fully recover until World War 2.

So far I don't see anyone predicting a downturn of that size.
"We don't want something that only allows people to be notified on their devices without anyone knowing who they are. We want to know exactly who the contacts are"

Why???

And even if you want the authorities to get specific names and contacts (which I don't understand the usage of it), a system giving those name while not revealing with whom s.he had been in contact with would be good.

More you have privacy, easier it gets to convince people to opt-in.

Monero or Pirates blockchains allows you to do some transaction while obscuring sender, recipient and amount of the transaction... Seems an inspiration to get more privacy for tracing app
Only some parts of some economies were shut down.
Mathematical notation is much more fluid than programming languages. People make up notations on the spot or abuse notation all the time. This is all done in the interest of uncluttering the maths from any unimportant details so you can focus on the important patterns.

You can see that if you ever try to do actual maths on a computer, e.g. with a CAS or, worse, an automated theorem prover. Suddenly you have to care about all these technical details and you get bogged down quickly.
That's saying killer whale don't kill seals, only killer whale teeth do.
One thing that's very valuable to me in WSL (both 1 and 2) is the automagic network settings that make ports available between systems - so if I start listening on 127.0.0.1:1234 in Linux, I can connect to that on Windows and vice versa.
Thanos Coding Style Guide
In Canada, engineering (not science) graduates "suscribe to the Obligation" before receiving the iron ring. The text is here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ritual_of_the_Callin...
I was listen to marketplace yesterday, and they had an IMF representative on who said this prediction involved a lot more uncertainty then usual, and would most likely be revised down.

You got to consider the unemployment rate, which is around 13% which is historically huge, but not that much outside the 6% swing in growth predictions by the IMF. Especially when you consider that must of the lost jobs where service industry type jobs which are generally lower paying. Also this loss is being spread across the whole year, if you only look at the second quarter things are looking much worse.
If you take all these things into account these numbers are too far fetched.
No offense taken!

And answering my question perfectly: It's not viable if you are in germany.

So such jobs are really not existing unless the pool of candidates including you is especially low. (and either way you compete against the rest of the world or at least rough timezone)
I was expecting to see something about the algebraic laws for functors and monads.
Where did GP make that argument?
You might want to upstream these. I'm sure people will find this useful.
The biggest difference is food. Today, we have a transportation problem, but back then, we often didn't have food to transport.
My theory is that the awful defaults are a test: a baptism of (pretty ugly) fire. It's designed to make you take one look and walk away in amused bewilderment... which I'd say is the right choice for most people! People want "it just works tm". Emacs is not that kind of application.

If you actually go through the crazy slog of making it usable and beautiful, then you pass the test and are hooked forever.
Or information is treated as a public good and publicly supported through taxes and an independent entity.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/telecommunications-mass-media...
Emacs is amazing. I stopped using it a few years ago because I became lazy to keep my configuration and extensions up-to-date.

I was also extremely bothered by the fact that the cursor cannot live outside the current viewport and scrolling the buffer would drag the cursor as well. At the time, it seemed impossible to fix because of the way Emacs works, and the solution was something like "you are using it wrong - you need to use marks instead".

But I would love to go back to it, to be honest. VSCode is very good, but Emacs is a whole other level of automation and convenience.
not going to work != wasting life
Why are Containers awful? Its great i use it all the time for this purpose.
Thanks, good tip. Totally a 1stest world problem we are having here.
Andreessen Horowitz aims to raise $450m for second cryptocurrency fund
Uhm, no? I can't find anything in Swedish newspapers about harsher measures.
Fair enough... Hence also why Google have plenty of Apps users etc even though they have a long track record of dropping even popular products at their whim.

Thanks for reminding me that it really is to each their own, and good luck to you on your path.
Spacemacs and Doom Emacs are distributions with default programs and work right out of the box.
Instead, I have a strict separation rule for these kind of services.

No work stuff is hosted in my personal accounts, and work accounts are always created with a separate e-mail. I can just remove myself from everything work related without touching anything personal.

While I was working with a small group, we had our own domain and e-mail addresses as a perk. My relationship went sour with the lead of the project and, as a power move, she disabled my e-mail and other accounts related to that group, guessing that a lot of stuff is connected to this e-mail (since the domain was prestigious in that circles) and doing so will hurt me a lot.

Since only things related to the group/work was on that e-mail, literally nothing happened. I just broke off cleanly from the group and, a move designed to hurt me brought bliss to the parting process.
The problem is always the same when putting out a website: what's your content - your added value, who are your prospects/readers ?

Sorting by date, CTA, content strategies, etc. come after you have answered those questions. Then you can focus on how best you can make your content and your readers meet.
The dump thing is a non optimizing compiler. GCC and LLVM contain many optimization phases. It is probably some normal optimization which is only "wrong" in the context of loop conditions.
Quibi App: The UX Review
I haven't left but I'm trying to figure out something else to do with my life.

I've been doing customer projects for the last 8 years and it has been horrible experience. 99% of the things you're building are the same thing all over again (CRUD apps and various integrations) and pretty much 100% of the problems are caused by people acting stupid in different ways. It all just feels so pointless.

I wish I could come up with something else, but currently this is all I know. At least it all pays well. So golden handcuffs of sort I guess.
Vim is simple. How is it not accessible?
And if you think about it, there is a lot more money to go around.

Purdue was only responsible for roughly 8% of the market. That means whatever money we get from the Sacklers, in an ideal world, should only be 8% of what we ultimately collect!

That could fund a lot.

Now all that assumes an ideal and non-corrupt US where everyone is equal under the law and all politicians are not corrupt and judges and lawyers are not bent etc etc. So, it would not surprise me at all if even among the billionaires, the pattern of only the smaller drug dealers getting prosecuted continues to hold true. I'm hoping at least for some media pressure to help take down some of these larger dealers. Probably won't actually take the big boys down by itself, but it can't hurt to try. 92% is a lot of money to leave on the table. (Not to mention a lot of crime to let go unpunished.)
> I forgot to mention PG. I have put small analytic datasets, 80 million rows or so, in Postgres with good results, but even then the response time was never less than a few seconds

There is already a bewildering number of options in this space, but did you try TimescaleDB (a time-series extension for Postgres)?

I'm using it with 100 million plus rows, and aggregate queries return in less than 100ms, even on my laptop - it really is very impressive.

I haven't used them yet, but it also supports continuous aggregates (automatic roll ups), which would make common queries near instantaneous.
I think you may have missed the most important difference. Both President Hoover and the Federal Reserve reacted by tightening monetary and fiscal policy. Their intentions were good, Hoover wanted a balanced budget and the Fed was attempting to defend the US Dollar peg to gold.

The unfortunate and unintended consequence was that the policies sucked all the oxygen out of the room and extinguished the flame of the economy.

This time, building on what Chairman Bernanke started, we are doing the opposite. He advocated for QE, and loose monetary policy.

My personal opinion is that this will not end well, but may take up to a decade to come to it’s natural conclusion.
> Your stats are way off and I suggest doing better research.

I've been reading [1] daily more or less since early February, as well as lots of things posted here. I'm certainly no professional, but I think I'm reasonably well-informed for a layperson. If you think there's something I've missed, I think you'd do much better to actually point me to a resource you think is better.

I realize that "number reported" is an issue, and varies a lot from country to country. But consider Germany, who have [EDIT: ramped up to 400k+ tests per week] now. The most recent numbers from the situation report says that Germany has 125k reported cases, with 3k reported deaths -- a death rate of 2.3%. EDIT: Also consider Korea, which is alleged to have instituted a massive testing infrastructure as well. Their numbers are currently 10,564 cases, 222 deaths -- again, 2.1% death rate.

It's possible that both the German and Korean numbers of cases are massively underreported, but it can't be by much. That puts the death rate with non-overwhelmed hospitals at significantly higher than 0.5%.

If you want to convince me that the death rate for overwhelmed hospitals is less than 5%, you're going to have to do better than waving your your hands and saying "but what about people not sick enough get tested".

EDIT2: Been challenged on the "500k tests per day", acknowledging that while I look for support for that claim.

EDIT3: I slightly mangled my numbers from [2]. The numbers from that are that Germany has been doing 160K tests per week since 20 March; and that the government's goal is 200k per day. [2] According to [3], on the week ending April 5, Germany did 393k tests.

[1] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

[2] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-germany-has-managed-...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing#germany
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One key difference is that you can't really "lie" in C++. This is a core feature of human languages.
yep same. Golden handcuffs. I am working on my ski instructor certifications though, because you know being ski instruction is where are all the big money is ;)
Sourcehut! I love it and have moved most of my stuff over. I'm not sure how it works for teams, but for my personal stuff I couldn't be more pleased.
There's been work done to make ZFS rebuilding (or resilvering as ZFS calls it) less random.

See for example "New prefetcher for sequential scrub" and "Improving resilver: results & operational impacts" from http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2017