skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're using lossless compression algorithms that are a lot more complicated than S3 Texture Compression and friends, and work on arbitrary data rather than being appropriate only for textures.
Call it what you like, experiment or report, hypothesis (your word) or trend (I think this the wrong term but I can't think of abetter one...).

As it is, they have found nothing because they did such a bad job of looking. Leaving aside that apparently 601% of patients were men (now there is a concerning trend), they haven't tested nicotine or smokers because their methods don't differentiate the Corona cases involving those factors from ones that don't.

Nicotine could kill every user and this study wouldn't find that, nicotine could make its users immortal and this study wouldn't notice. That's what makes it bad: they found nothing because they did a bad job of looking.

This is a badly dressed up version of "my aunt smoked and she lived to be 97 so it can't be all bad".
I firmly believe HN users could do a study and they would still disagree with their own results.
I’ve spent $1700 on uber eats since this covid thing started.

Restaurants need help and drivers do too. I would normally think this amount of money for 6 weeks of food is nuts but I’m glad I can help.

Keeping the economy going as much as possible is really important, IMO.
I just saw a TV ad from Uber thanking me for NOT riding with Uber during this time.

You're... welcome?
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NSA might not be the shadiest, but it's definitely one of the shadiest. Doesn't change a thing about GP's comment.
What's a good place to see CPU benchmarks? I want to know how much more perf I can get from upgrading my 2012 i7-3770.
My concern here is why did you pay over $100 when you felt fine? How often would someone sample themselves without symptoms?
We did the same at a previous company. This was Redux, so maybe a little different, but it went very smoothly.

We stored a subset of the redux store locally, and a further subset of that was sent to the server. This data is quite prone to changing, so a JSON field in the database is fine. You're not going to do any advanced querying / migrations on it.

Restoring was pretty easy:

- Try to grab from local storage

- Try to read from remote

- Merge those (let local overwrite remote)

- Pass the merged object through a migration function

- Pass the migrated data to `createStore`

The biggest pain point was dealing with TypeScript and migrations. The app only knows if the most recent store interface, so migration functions looked a lot like "old" javascript (`if (foo && foo.bar)`, `typeof foo === 'string'`, that sort of stuff).

Easy persistence / restoring is one of the many things I like about Redux.
Being willing to provide source code is entirely different than inserting a backdoor or purposefully holding back security updates.

One should have zero impact, as I said, modern crypto algorithms do not depend on keeping the algorithm secret to maintain security. Implementation can absolutely be full of bugs that are incorrectly using crypto primitives though.

The other has a direct impact on security.

I don't think one blurs the line to the other, they're fundamentally different things.

If anything, this is further proof that you need to use crypto properly because it literally means someone with code in hands won't have any advantages in attempting to break that encryption.

To me anyway, someone willing to give source code to the NSA doesn't imply they'd be willing to do nefarious things. There's nothing inherently nefarious about giving the NSA source code.

That said, I can understand being skeptical, but people love to talk about how open source is more secure because it has eyeballs on it. But now we try to pull the "it's not secure because the source was given to the NSA"

It can't be both ways.
> But seriously, this laptop idiot was planning to blow up a building, or something equally as bad, but wasn’t smart enough or flush enough to pop for the $39.99 to step up to the maximum-strength encryption?

Says the developer who could have been social engineered to give away what he had done by being rushed in a way that others would perhaps call 'not smart enough'.

And where does the skill set of knowing about encryption come close to what someone needs to know in order to 'blow up a building'? Why would you expect that someone understands the difference or the risk? Or should? After all it's risky to begin with what they are doing. This is just another and different risk.

Now the question is if you were the NSA and of course I have no clue how they operate but maybe it would have made more sense to send the local police to a house to deliver the message AND the other part 'call this number' etc. And who knows how that could have been fake for that matter (it all hinged on calling 411 as being definitive and/or someone not intercepting a legit call). Sure someone could social engineer the local police to show up (I would think that would be easy for someone who knows how they operate or with whoever is on shift at that time).

Also the coffee cup is strange. Secretive agency but they send a gift as a thank you with their name so you have some kind of proof that allows you to detail how they operate and that they did this? Would make more sense that they got you to agree to not reveal they had requested the info not that they gave you some kind of bragging rights and story.
Then why can't the juniors be remote?
Opportunity cost seems to be at least one of the factors it's not accounting for. If you know a strategy that produces a reasonable reward consistently, then trialing a strategy that produces a higher reward less consistently is a risk, and you can't know whether it will pay off in the long term until you've already committed to forgo the consistent rewards for the period of your trial run. This study could have just as easily been about risk aversion.

Then you also have the opportunity cost of what you choose to optimize. Perhaps making sub-optimal choices is fine in areas that aren't important to you for whatever reason. You have to make choices all day, you don't have enough time or energy to optimize all of them. If you want to succeed in whatever your highest priority goals are, then I'd suggest that you should only bother to optimize things that are actually going to help you achieve them. Devoting significant effort to optimizing things that don't matter is usually called bike-shedding, and I think a lot of us would have experienced how that can come at the expense of things that actually matter.

I'd also suggest that focusing on overly narrow set of factors can skew the results. The author talked about commute routes, and I know that my usual commute route is sub-optimal from a time perspective. I know there are routes that can give me 5-10 minutes in time. But I usually don't choose them, because I'm usually not optimizing for time on my commute. After a days work, I'll usually prefer to take the slow mindless crawl down the freeway, over the 20-left-turn route that gets me home some inconsequential amount of time faster.
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/
And simultaneously doesn’t.
I believe the point was, if your server is compromised but you're using stripe.js, you're not legally on the hook for exposing CC details, even though they definitely could have been exposed.

(I have no idea if this is even true, this was just my reading.)
Are you not concerned about kitchen staff acting as vectors? Honest question.
From that article:

> Khosrowshahi said the company modeled “an extreme edge case” in which trip volume plummeted 80 percent.

We are now in "extreme edge case" territory.
Yes, my priority was making the UI done as fast as possible, as I wanted to focus on making the debugger and didn't want to think too much about UI. I looked at some examples of both of them and decided that tui-rs looks easier to use, it takes care of everything for me. Note that I might be wrong, I didn't spend even half an hour looking at the frameworks.

Another reason, albeit really small, was that tui-rs was written specifically for rust, and curses framework I looked into were essentially just C bindings, making it a bit weird to use. To be fair, this disadvantage is by far outweighed by the fact that curses is far more popular than tui-rs, and there is so much more tutorials and documentation to be found about it.

But I wanted to focus on writing the debugger, so I went with what seemed to be more convenient option and paid the price of lower control and performance - for example I have troubles implementing syntax highlighting because tui-rs tries to be clever with mine ansi escape codes.

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Thanks for the links, especially the ble.sh looks amazing.
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I can't even imagine there is a valid legal argument.

If somebody calls me, I can say whatever I want. If I want to answer the phone by saying "Department of Defense, how can I help you?" the First Amendment guarantees me the right to do that.

Now, I certainly could not call other people and claim to be the Department of Defense. That's fraud. The same applies if I had done something like put up flyers claiming my phone number was related to the DoD or something like that.

I'm not a lawyer, but that's how I see it.
Does this mean Uber will lose less money than it did in previous quarters?
No?

The oil situation is happening because producers are contractually obligated to pump (significantly) more oil than there is market demand for and it is hard to store or ramp down production of oil.

Uber rides have none of those qualities. If people stop riding Uber the producers (drivers) will just stop driving. The price may drop, but there's no prepayment and no driver will accept a negative fare.
The crazy thing about Uber Eats is that it takes a 30% cut of food item price, and on top of that they add the "service fee" and delivery charge, so very often restaurants had to raise their price significantly on Uber Eats vs. their actual menu.

In fact, that 30% fee applies even for in-restaurant pick up, which is plain ridiculous.
i read a story about a compiler adding malware to the compiled binary once.

they kept getting owned until they supposedly found a pretty dump hack which just appended the backdoor to the final compilation on the build server...

no clue if it was just a story though, as i personally havent experienced anything like that before.
> hard to reach staff or sr management positions

There's a lot of us that don't want to move into positions where we don't work on software development at the code level. Unfortunately, that also tends to put a cap on how much we can make because a lot of people see management as an upward movement rather than a lateral one.
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Oh, offer was made in case GP wants to have a deeper discussion/back-and-forth than is readily achievable with an online forum. Timing constraints notwithstanding, we work hard to answer questions on HN too.
One side project that's on my bucket list is to implement very far range of view on Minecraft-like games (e.g. Minetest[1] and Terasology[2]). Something like what we see in Battle Royale games or open-world shooters like Farcry. It's a little frustrating to have such beautiful worlds in these games and not being able to see a large part of it in a stunning landscape.

I have no ideas what kind of techniques would be required. I'm not a computer graphics guy :)

[1] https://www.minetest.net/
[2] https://terasology.org/
I'm sorry, this book really doesn't speak to the reasons why I smoked (cognitive stimulation, social connection, a reason to take a break).

I'm glad it's help other people but it feels out-of-touch in exactly the way that I highlighted in my comment above: it demonizes cigarettes, describing the harms of nicotine without the benefits.

In many ways, nicotine is similar to amphetamines or caffeine. Adderall isn't healthy but people take it for a reason. It doesn't help anyone to pretend like it's totally irrational to consume addictive stimulants.
> But on 64-bit windows the default exception handling (SEH) uses a similar mechanism than Linux and should have comparable performance.

AFAIK SEH in Windows calls RaiseException() which in turn causes a user/kernel mode transition, probes for exception/termination handlers, and vectored exception handlers depending on the severity. It's been a while but I'm not sure the code GCC generates in Linux is quite like this.
It's definitely attainable, but I feel like there is quite a bit of variance in how painful it is for various people. But I totally agree that quitting has been marketed as more challenging than it is.
It's just you focus more on the parts that are relevant for the job.

Unless you're fresh out of school, you likely have more experience than what can fit on a CV.
However most of it is at best tangentially relevant.

So you reduce/remove the parts that do not apply, and go into more details on the parts that apply.

Of course, if all the jobs you apply are pretty similar (say front end with React), then you won't change much between each CV.
That's true. They should give more clear and explicit information so site owners can make an informed decision. Including the difference in what's collected if the script is included on just the checkout page(s) vs. on every page.
Stimulation. Same reason people drink coffee and tea. Except for me, nicotine is way more effective.
Userbenchmark has been waging a one man war against AMD's high benchmarks. That isn't a really good source.
If by rewarded you mean comp, then yes I'm very happy with it for my age. Given the situation outside - just grateful to have a job right now.

I chose this over university - I get paid and am working towards a CS degree as part of the work. Granted, am not an intern (I'm something different) but I understand they are well paid at FAANG companies and the experience is the same.
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The Oahu bike map does a green/yellow/red classification which seemed useful:

* https://www.hbl.org/oahubikemap/
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Negative pricing will not work in passenger transportation. Even zero pricing would result in overcrowding.
Location problem? It says "Recommended Customer Price: $122" in the 8th line down, and matches a couple other part/list/guides I see.

as well as random google hit:

https://technical.city/en/cpu/Core-i3-9100
I'd have to toss my bike over a barbed wire fence, or maybe cut the lock. The service road winds between a bunch of natural gas storage tanks so I don't think they'd willingly let me in. There's a "≠" symbol where the service road is fenced off, which I assume means impassible but "≠" isn't on the map legend so I'm not sure. When I hit the cycle layer, the ≠ symbol goes away
There's no evidence so that that it's transmitted via food.
Yes, it is only for paying users
Do electrolytic capacitors rejuvenate when travelling backwards in time?
There is no hard evidence that COVID-19 is transmitted on food. Furthermore, restaurants in developed countries have to follow rigorous health and safety practices when preparing and distributing food. Those practices, which include hand washing, reduce the risk of virus transmission even further. Keep in mind that the transmission of disease via food is something that health authorities have been tackling for decades.
What would be the point of negative pricing?
UserBenchmark's summary scores are biased toward <8 core workloads, because almost all users don't saturate 8+ cores.

All the detailed metrics are available for perusal.

That's all.
Really cool stuff, I've been working on being able to debug sed scripts as well by translating it to pseudo readable C[1], compiling the result and then using gdb to step in the script, but this TUI is much more readable!

[1] https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin
What's your caffeine intake like? I'm wondering if drinking an extra cup of coffee can help cognitively or if the caffeine stimulation just makes the nicotine craving worse.
That is to be expected. Uber makes what little it does on Uber Eats. Lyft probably doesn't even make that. Same with Airbnb, they are probably making 0 right now.
Working together in the kitchen, I assume the comment above means.
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Fortunately it seems prepared food is low risk.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/4/10/21216586/coronavirus...
I've heard Uber Eats has much higher margin anyways, and many restaurants (the ones that haven't closed down anyways) are still shipping via Uber Eats among other delivery apps.

I'd love to hear more about how Uber Eats might work with restaurants and delivery staff to have an accepted sanitary and packaging standard, esp. with food like salads or burritos. Going the extra mile w.r.t. assuring consumer confidence might keep both consumer burn and churn lower.
There is no foil on my head, but ... it is very reasonable to be paranoid, right?

They are not talking about the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs or the Office of the Comptroller of the currency... It is a comment on the NSA. From what we know, everything they do is a bit creepy. Far from "All government is bad" ... The comment is about an agency that Snowden warned us about.

Also, historically speaking the US government (various departments) has done a lot of really shady things.

"They" are not going to let us know all of the shenanigans they are up to. The list of mischievous things we are aware of surely isn't everything. Are we aware of 70%? 60%? I'm going to bet lower.

So you have a opaque organization with a fairly long list of misdeeds and (this is just my sense of things) a growing boldness. NSA programs, patriot act, etc - those are bold programs they have in place. Those are not the "top secret" things we don't get to know about.

It does not take a lot of imagination to make that leap.
I’m confused after reading the article. Is the expectation there to see a new battery or for Musk to tell the world about a plan for such cheap batteries.
How have you been foregoing profit for your work during this calamitous time? Have you been laid off like many people or are you simply returning the cheques that your employer sends you?

Personally I've been continuing to show up for work despite my employer not having sufficient funds to pay me but I understand that every situation is different.
> Well, rarely done isn't the same as never done.

Absolutely. But I do think the difference between "idiomatic" and "rarely done" is valuable, here. And as you said yourself, it's not clear that these leaks are caused by this kind of thing.

If someone saw Rust code leaking memory all the time due to catching panics, I'd want to know about it, because it's very contradictory to my own experience, and I think that's interesting.
I tried on 75.0. I disabled all my extensions except yours and restarted. No luck.
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haha, you beat me to it! :D
Funny, that was their strategy pre-IPO
usability, say I use external library Bar, then I declare

private:
Bar bar;

the end use will have install Bar library as well to use my library despise Bar being embedded in my static library, I dislike that.
The answer to this is that the baitier title can help bootstrap an article onto the front page and that's not always bad. Once it's on the front page, that's enough of an indication that there might be something interesting about the article, so it's not going to damage it as much to restore the title. I tend not to include this point in top-level public comments because subtleties like this make the explanation too complicated.

I say "not always bad" but in the present case I do think it was bad, because there really isn't much of interest in the article. Even though the cherry-picked point was the more interesting detail, it only got a single sentence. That's not enough to support a non-generic discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
This is true, sort of, but unfortunately only a part of the story. Wuhan (and its province) was treated very differently than other provinces. Tests were actually moved to less hard hit provinces, away from Wuhan, since hard lock down long term was used for Hubei/Wuhan. They didn't really need tests, therefore. But the biggest difference - which shows up in a youtube animated chinese govt film - zero trust, zero escape if you were a contact. You were detained (in a "hospital" with no treatments available)even if you were a contact who tested negative; for two weeks. No self-isolation, citizens were never trusted to behave.
It says lots about our press that none of this even gets discussed during the media's wall to wall covid coverage. Who cares what worked. Who cares that prone position worked in China, either.
The Ghosn saga was an eye-opener for a lot of people:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/27/carlos-ghosn-warns-forei...
Direct link to source: https://github.com/pedrib/PoC/blob/master/advisories/IBM/ibm...
The actors' intent.

Actual conspiracies involve deceit, misdirection, and ill will.

"Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence."

It's not a perfect rule, but it is a helpful idea to keep in mind.
I'm in NYC where the vast majority of restaurants can do deliveries themselves. I've just been ordering from the restaurants directly so that they don't have to deal with the cut and charges Uber Eats imposes on them. I do feel bad that drivers for services like Uber Eats don't get business as a result of this but I'd prefer the restaurants stay in business. At least the restaurant workers are supposed to be paid minimum wage.
Water pipes, at least, can't be allowed to freeze. In most of continental USA, that would preclude locating them in a vault under the sidewalk.
Until someone trains a reinforcement algorithm to click the box like a human ;)
That's just not the case here... o365+Teams is above and beyond a better experience than GDocs, even in Linux... Since January, they even fixed all the issues I had with Teams in Linux (unofficial and official apps).

I really wanted to like GDocs, it's just a really poor experience in general.
as in, the are sneezing/coughing on your food? if so, that would be a vector for a LOT other diseases and i would hope that restaurants are more careful than that.

re: packaging? here, we are cleaning everything we get, but, at the same time, WHO said[0] that there are no cases of COVID-19 being transmitted through food or food packaging.

(we have spent something like ~1000 USD in delivery food since this all started, mostly on local restaurants since they are the ones that are suffering the most)

[0] https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1251401883660554240
there have been immediate shortages for basic sundry goods
Even that is no guarantee. Some of the passengers on that cruise ship became symptomatic weeks later.
I downvoted you because these are terrible suggestions. Tapering down is a far easier way of quitting most addictions. Drinking yourself to sleep is always a terrible idea.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking as well. I'm always amazed how careless people deal with statistics, particularly if these very statistics have poltical value to someone. While there are certainly naive people out there, most of the times it just seems like intentional misunderstanding to push a certain narrative.