skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate is much less chaotic than weather, as it is about long-term and long-range averages; the quality of climate models can be judged by feeding them historic inputs (such as the amount of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions) and comparing their outputs for the years until 2020 with the actual record. Even simple climate models are substantially better than random guesses.
CC0 it is! I added the legal information in the GitHub project.
Silicon Valley Legends Launch Beyond Identity in Quest to Eliminate Passwords
Indeed. I just went searching for a SequelPro replacement yesterday and found Table Plus. Tried it for an hour and bought a license.
People in San Francisco struggle to drive in the rain let alone the snow.
Nice. Aral Balkan of small-tech.org is having plans with Dat for Tincan and Site.js:

https://small-tech.org/research-and-development/
True. I think that's the way the world is moving towards. I also see the 5000+ custom alarm clock apps out there as essentially forks of "deployed apps" for just alarms. But that was already predated by the explosion of websites doing the same XYZ thing (calorie trackers, photo storing apps, etc...) specifically before the mobile era. I think we're just seeing the same with the open source world as we've seen occur in more mature worlds.
> Because "something better than humans can do" is the whole selling point of self-driving cars.

I don't think so. 'As good as humans can do' would be useful.
Without an identity provider scheme that doesn't allow creating unlimited free identities, the spam, scam, and troll problem gets out of hand.

China has a strong identity provider scheme. They tie everyone's phone to their government issued citizen ID.
Landlords are targeting vulnerable tenants to solicit sex in exchange for rent
Pulled over, like you should have done.

I've been exactly where you were, driving the Coq highway in British Columbia at night in a blizzard, following two red dots in front of me. I had (mandatory) snow tires on a rear wheel drive BMW. I also had my family in the car.

It was probably the single stupidest thing I've ever done driving a car.
Should probably mention it doesn't work on Windows 95 either.
Exactly.

If we're willing to settle for "as good as a human" in autonomous vehicles, then IMHO all this expertise, R&D, time, effort, money, etc. would be better spent on the public transit and/or active mobility solutions of the near-future.
Compare publishing a book 100 years ago to publishing a book now. I can write literally whatever I want and self publish.

Before there was more implicit vetting to all of the media we consumed. That people were talking about it being easier a thousand years ago only suggests that it has been true for a long time.

You cannot deny that it is easier than ever in history to publish information or art. And if you track the progression of technology you'll see that those people a thousand years ago weren't necessarily wrong. Starting with the invention of writing, then ink, then the printing press.....and now the internet.
I’m sorry you feel that way. There’s a church for everybody. I attend church online a lot mainly because it’s better for my schedule, the lessons are impactful and I’m completely comfortable in my own home.
Coincidentally, I discovered TablePlus in Setapp today while searching for a macOS MySQL client. Has been a smooth experience in the first few hours, and a better looking interface that other clients that I have tried in the past.

As another comment mentions, support for Linux is a big plus - we need better GUIs in there.
Thank you for making a beautiful and thoughtful product in a vain and thoughtless age. They are few and far between these days. Also, .app domains rule.
Hareraiser (The Worst Game Ever)
DIY Iron Faberje egg [video]
-It might be something more benign, it could be some false positive, my man, who the truck knows.
Don’t let the stock market fool you
The iPhone 3G and original iPhone both had Android ports. Back then the (internal) hardware was mostly off the shelf, so it was easier. Still, this is neat.
gave it a trial install, and one thing I noticed right away is that memory usage shoots up and responsiveness slows to a crawl when working with medium-ish tables (hundreds of thousands of rows) if you happen to run a select and forget to limit your query, it slows to a crawl

datagrip paginates results in batches of 500 by default, which helps with not accidentally making the interface implode on itself
The two turns (one left and one right-on-red) leading up to getting to Market Street in the latter half of the video struck me as odd; the left turn looked like a bit of a lane sweep, and the right-on-red looked dubious (is it legal to turn right on red if you're not in the far-right lane?).

SF intersections are hard, though, and the computer seemed to handle them about as well as I would've.
and redis lol
Compiler barriers and machine barriers are completely different things, despite having a similar name.

In about the era you described, the Linux kernel community did go around throwing rmb()s and wmb()s everywhere, and those did translate to hardware fences. (And in general, it is not safe to elide a hardware fence on x86 despite relatively strong memory ordering.) This is what I believed you were talking about; maybe I misunderstood: apologies.

Putting explicit compiler barriers in code is still not quite the modern model for relaxed atomic consumers. You use the abstract acquire/release load/store pseudo-functions, and they do the right thing depending on implementation. The compiler barriers in the relaxed atomics model are an internal implementation detail, not the API.

x86 is just an example where the cheapest way to do a release-semantics store is a plain store. I never said all the world was x86 — if it were, abstract acquire/release relaxed atomics would be kind of pointless.
I have also been a dbeaver user, but DBeaver 7 has been really unstable for me and has caused me to look for alternatives.
Build Lasting Habits with these tips
The author's audience is other "rationalists". His goal is to boost his standing with them. I imagine the style is very effective at this.
Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, But Kept the Party Going
Thank for the empty feedback. I’ll continue in my ways.
from the website:

> TablePlus is a native application. We are using Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Perl for OSX, C# for Windows.
> I was once driving on a road I could not see at all. It was at night, in a blizzard on the road from Denver to Vail. It didn't take long until I was following the two red lights of the bus in front of me.

Perhaps you should have pulled over at this point? Maybe that's what an autonomous car would do.
They predated the SoC era, as did all the late Symbian handsets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22911286
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Your feedback is valid and you may be right. In fact, you probably are right--most new things fail to get traction, and I don't dispute that live standup is going to be very tough to approximate virtually. But if you've ever tried to build a product for others before, you know that what users end up liking and using often seems inexplicable and is almost impossible to guess before you start putting iterations of an idea in front of them. There are probably some possible versions of this product that do work, even though most don't.

"Post this service in the stand-up subs in Reddit and to see the responses from actual comedians. IMO the person who built this service doesn't "get" stand-up and therefore the idea won't work."

Posting it on Reddit for feedback is a great idea. But the important thing isn't whether the people there love it or pan it, it's what can be learned from their feedback.

"What might work? A real substitute which isn't stand-up. I don't know what that is or I might build it myself. But there's a lot of ways to create with a comic mind."

Getting something imperfect out there for people to use and give feedback on is a much better way to find out what does or doesn't work than guessing at it in your head.

"Also, show me a stand-up comedian who is doing this? If it were a thing, then the majors would already be doing it."

Come on, you can make this argument against anything new. New platforms don't get famous people on them right away; they have to first get traction with early adopters. The way to tell whether this could be a thing is to look at growth among early adopters, not big names.
I hope the right to repair movement catches on.
> they crap in my vegetable patch, and it contains toxoplasmosis

Each cat can release toxoplasm parasites once, maybe for less than two weeks in 12 years, if healthy

If you have an old cat in your garden is removing toxoplasmosis (killing rodents that act also as hosts and crap also over your kale and under your carrots).

If you kill this cat or chase it off your garden, then new cats will apear and refill the territory. Think that you could be increasing the risk, in fact. Not to mention that people can pick up toxoplasm perfectly in a supermarket can of soup / rodent dance-floor. If you want cats out of your vegetables install sprinklers.

If you are concerned about the cat effect in birds, just add more natural areas and tall trees
????

Spotlight

Disable Spotlight and use Alfred on both iPhone and Mac.

How Alfred is more secure then Spotlight ?
Or How Spotlight is insecure ?

Would like to know more
As far as I know "navigating a busy parking lot while raining" is a problem the autonomous car industry does not even have an idea how to solve.
Cant think of a good name / domain and no idea how get readers anyway.
I think you are in the right here. If one is trolling an audience of one, it's not really the same dopamine hit as Tweeting a death threat to a Senator that thousands see. It gets boring quick. Also, troll management as a problem is sort of like the "What if I burn $100,000 on AWS in one month?" problem. It's a good problem to have, it means you have traction, and with patience and focus the trolls can be steamrolled.
> that's a socialization problem

Understatement of the century. As I said, it's not my cat, but anyway, he was rescued from a very abusive situation as an adult, has diabetes and a voracious appetite.

I wasn't posting here to get cat advice: I've lived with them my whole life and have nurtured several stray kittens into pleasant companions. I was responding to the notion that cats are ambivalent to human existence and wouldn't bother to harm us.

> not all cats can make that much progress though

Yes
"SoC era"?
> In Linux land, the mainstream distros ship with fragile duct-taped components that work if you’re lucky but are a complete pain to troubleshoot and are a bigger pain as time goes on and you have major upgrades.

Laughing in Fedora. Out of curiosity how much "mainstream distros" did you use?
France may use digital tracking to control coronavirus
Can online courses help people deal with isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic?
I'm not sure I understand the extreme focus on testing.

3blue1brown on YouTube created a simple model that suggests that testing and quarantine of positive cases is the most effective way to slow the spread (within the simplified model). Testing should allow us to isolate just the infected, and ease off the restrictions on others.
Before Apple bought PA Semi and started working on their own A series of System on a Chip (SoC) processors. They were using ARM reference designs before.
7 miles is not very far.
Yeah. I've taken a few breaks on RDR2 where I put the shotties away and just go fishing for a couple days. So peaceful. I haven't played in nine months, need to fire the Xbox back up again.
Is this meant as a way to practice K? GLSL is not really a difficult language to program in, it's actually pretty great.
I always wondered about the privacy implications of using Google Firebase, but didn't yet take the time to investigate it thoroughly.
I have a laptop, a home computer, a work computer and I have all my tools on all of them. I bet that is more the norm than not. The license should be associated with the person not the device.
It's actually Joseph M. Juran, sounds the same if you're listening to an audiobook.
I assume they are referring to the time before Apple used custom system-on-chip designs
That's the good old Pareto principle for you: the last few percent are going to take a lot more effort than the first 95%.

More to the point, this falls into the category of safety-critical systems, with the added wrinkle of potentially being used daily by millions of people. Unlike many domains where software is applied, 80% of the way there doesn't cut it, nor does 95% or 99% or even 99.9%.

(Leaving aside the fact that, for all of us not actively engaged in autonomous vehicle R&D, we likely have absolutely no idea how close we are to success here, or even what all the relevant goalposts would be.)
Both Fedora and Opensuse Tumbleweed ship a very recent Kernel though.
I built a discord for business during quarantine
You can read more about why in the blog post I wrote: https://blog.timberlineapp.com/timberline-welcome/

To put it simply I just haven't really been happy with the options so I created one that _I_ would want to use.

I know it sounds funny because Discord was the Slack for gamers, and a Discord for business sounds like it'd be Slack. But it makes sense I promise.

I built this by myself over the last month and a half roughly while sitting at home during quarantine. There's a lot it's missing but it's a good start and I feel like a lot got done in a short amount of time.
Here's an alternative set of per-US-state Rt estimates from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, with somewhat different results: https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/national/united-states/

They believe there's insufficient data to estimate Rt today, though, due to lags in symptoms/diagnosis/testing/reporting. So their estimates lag about 10 days, with the x-axis for the Rt-over-time graphs currently running February 17 through April 7.

They also have per-country estimates: https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/global/
Raspberry Pi sales are rocketing in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak
> there were no emotional, psychological, psychiatric, subconscious, etc. considerations at all

> I heard good things about big shops successfully using Windows Server for Web sites and running database. I need database, and Microsoft's SQL Server seems well respected, understood, popular, documented, stable, etc.

This clearly suggests a yearning for a father figure. What was your parents' relationship like when you were a child?
Where do Nock and Hoon belong (from Urbit, for those who are out of the loop)?
No, but they're familiar with the definition (start-to-finish entirely autonomous trip under somewhat-controlled driving conditions) even if they don't necessarily know the lingo to describe it. Being able to get from point A to point B without human intervention is what people expect when they hear "self-driving car", and the video does little (if anything) to temper that expectation (perhaps because it truly is ready for L4 deployment, or perhaps because it's all smoke and mirrors).
Eh, I personally enjoyed the series, but I wouldn't recommend anything beyond book 1. Book 2 is ok. Book 3 really spoiled the series for me because of the inconsistent behavior if the main character. (Keeping it vague to avoid spoilers)
Surely richer people can more effectively self isolate? Less likely to be a key worker, can easily get items delivered to house, more likely to be able to exercise at home etc
What are you referring to, Firefox? If not, Kiwi is open source, and I trust Firefox a lot more than Brave.
Is it really a "smartphone" yet if it can't make phone calls or use the cell modem? Not discounting the work that's been done, but the title feels a little premature.

https://projectsandcastle.org/status
* meant to say "might not", not "might".
Ok sent!
By getting multiple opinions, like what the GP is presumably doing by asking such a question on a forum like Hacker News.
Must admit I've always though this is an oscillation created by the inductivity and capacitance of the circuit, never though of it as an actual mechanical switch bouncing off the other contact. Shouldn't a spark form and short-circuit the mechanical contacts even if they bounce around a little?
> more people are immune due to prior infection

This is not a given. Other coronaviruses tend to confer only temporary immunity, and this one might be similar.

This thing could become seasonal unless/until we make a very effective vaccine against it. <shudder/>
I was shocked to read that according to the source I read (since forgotten, it was a study of net worth changes for US legislators since 1990), Feinstein/Blum net worth actually went down a touch since 1993, perhaps even in nominal dollars (not counting inflation).
> under somewhat-controlled driving conditions

I don't even know what this means, so I doubt the uninformed know the definition.
Well, various parts are taken amusingly but I think this is aiming to be a serious inquiry into the psychology of programming language choice, which a bit different from the psychology of actually programming. Language choice is much wrapped up with power and ideology, areas that Zizek etc focus on strongly.
I did, before I commented here.
Windows 7 end of life began in January 2020. Around a quarter of all PCs are still running it.

Remind me again what the EOL for Windows 95 was.

"Even today, millions of PCs are still running Windows 7, and the operating system still runs on a massive 26 percent of all PCs according to data from Netmarketshare."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21065122/microsoft-window...
The District of Columbia is not a state, and yet is included.
I followed the video on the link and finally sorted it all out. I was doing a few things wrong!
Are you sure those two red lights can see and know where they are going?
I'm a late-Boomer, milquetoast-Libertarian, in the Classical Liberal faction.

In my country our state has a 'one stop shop' website that handles most routine state government licencing payments.

This is much better than say 10 years ago when it was a multitude of separate mailed paper bills.

I can log in and see where my car licence and registration is due, a lot of other potential Govt. services (most of the welfare services I don't use) my fishing licence (funds cover policing of regulations and community projects to conserve fish habitats).

The car rego is linked to my car service shop so when I get an annual safety check my old car requires it's automatically sent through. This used to be a painful process 20 years ago, queuing up at the motor registry that used to close at lunchtime so the staff could have lunch.

It's not the ideal Libertarian tradeoff, but much better than what it used to be and a lot cheaper for the Government to run. They actually dropped registration charges a while back, with a refund! Virtue signalling maybe, but it's the kind I like.
This is not a bad thing, and maybe I'm alone in this, but I spent my first minute thinking over whether "Shishua" was some kind of romanized mandarin or mandarin-esque word!

(I speak cantonese, though, so maybe mandarin speakers wouldn't fall in this trap)
Do you mind going deeper here?

Which protocols?
Can you point to examples?

Because I was about to design a signing Json solution but based on the comments here it is a bad idea.
You're being unnecessarily combative.

> No. You are wrong. There are no words in the standard that say that “basic types cannot overlap in memory”.

§ J.2, Undefined Behavior

An object is assigned to an inexactly overlapping object or to an exactly overlapping object with incompatible type (6.5.16.1).

> There is not even a notion of “basic type”.

"Object."

You repeatedly (in this thread, and on your blog) express that you don't really understand "strict" (ISO standard) aliasing rules, and that seems to be the case.
The garbage collection handbook
It's wild that California has been locked down for a full month and the reproduction number is still hovering around 1 and even went up a couple of days ago.

If that's actually true, we shouldn't expect to see a quick decrease in cases and we probably aren't on track to end the lockdown any time before at least June. I can't help but wondering if the unlimited outside time under the guise of "exercise", but which people are clearly taking advantage of by going to hang out with friends in the park, has anything to do with it. Or perhaps it's the lack of masks in indoor areas like grocery stores that has prevented a bigger drop (in SF, only starting today has that finally changed).

For all that California has been praised for acting quickly, it still feels like we've really been slow playing this lockdown by being so lenient, and without really having gained anything. And it doesn't really seem like there's any urgency anymore around continuing to increase testing, even though we know that's needed to open back up. Now we're going to be stuck inside for weeks or months longer than we would have needed to be if we had just copied what successful countries (Taiwan, South Korea) did from the beginning.
My near-death experience on a ventilator
Non-relational :(
With the possible exception you mentioned (I switched to FastMail long ago to get back to that snappy feeling) my experience with SPAs is that they all add 10 megs of JavaScript up front and several dozen kbs of JSON or similar per click to save a couple tens of bytes per page of HTML. I pulled those numbers out of the air obviously, but I'm not sure that they're even exaggerations…
It sounds like it currently "cheats" a bit by already having driving rules, maps (including signs), etc. baked in; it'd be akin to a human driver memorizing the California Vehicle Code and a map of San Francisco word-for-word and lane-for-lane.

Presumably Zoox deployments in other cities would work similarly, "cheating" by baking in local driving rules and road maps. A consumer-owned self-driving car would likely be able to do something similar by downloading the local ruleset and maps on the fly, assuming one exists.
There are rules to that situation. You can start there, let other cars go ahead of you if they break the rules, go slow and not hit anything. It isn't as if self driving cars can't look to the side or stop if something changes. Beyond that Jim Keller would say that not getting hit by something else is a matter of ballistics.
Also before the boot was totally locked down in encrypted black boxes.
Not to spoil anyone's surprise, but the title of mettamage's linked video is "Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs".
I'd bet most people who work(ed) at Google were rejected at least once. I was. I'd also bet that if the current engineers working at Google were to be re-interviewed, at least a half of them would be rejected by Google's interview process. What you've experienced is mostly an artifact of having 100+ people apply for each open position, it says nothing at all about your intelligence.
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
I've just found the Linux alpha release (build 52) [1], and so I've installed it. This is just alpha and probably missing features, one being that it doesn't seem possible to connect to Oracle. MySQL was available so I tried connecting to a local instance of that that DBeaver connects to and it failed to connect.

There are some UI glitches, but it is alpha software. I do like the simple UI; DBeaver does feel very busy in comparison. I'll keep updating as it progresses through alpha and see how it improves.

1. https://tableplus.com/blog/2019/10/tableplus-linux-installat...
Fax, being a handshaked and unshared network has hung on in many applications due to it's security. Hard copy at each end = filing pain in the ass.
Also good for Japanese/Chinese writted ideograms