skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where are the transcript of adversarial hearings and the ratified constitutional amendment.

When you cant even get the head of state to fully endorse the consensus and face major dissent then what basis have we to claim it was an consensus to begin with.

The problem is of cause that the panic induced rush to do something let to an consensus without quorum. And while the rush might have been justified it needs validation by an actual quorate consensus on an near daily basis as emergency decisions to suspect rights have an lifetime of days not months.

Lockdown is after all also how authoritarian states typically respond to political unrest, so we need to keep being vigilant that they only exists for the purpose of spreading and actively expanding epidemic.
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HN: the situation where procurement is local is dumb, feds should be distributing PPE

Feds: (attempt to) seize PPE to distribute it elsewhere

HN: The situation where feds seize PPE is dumb, you should be able to procure locally

Which is it folks? What's the set up that will satisfy your wishes?

Meanwhile a quote from gov Cuomo today: "I think the president is right when he says the states should lead", regarding testing.
Fuck you, dim candle, for causing me to stumble in the darkness.

Android framework is a dancing bear. What is remarkable is not how well it dances, but that it can be made to dance at all.

This is not to excuse Alphabet, who are entirely well-enough equipped to make something actually good, if they could be bothered.
I get that it's not supposed to be a technical blog post, but some details would've been nice.

What platform are they using? Major Cloud Providers?
How'd they solve load balancing? HA-Proxy? Nginx?
What tuning had been done?

What database are they using? What'd they use to determine the queries? What'd they end up doing with the hot queries?

VPN tunnels? What are they using? What's the underlying network?

More importantly, what challenges did they experience while scaling up? What things had to be fundamentally rewritten?

Maybe the author will see this and can answer some of the questions here.
please get rid of the old python...
I'm surprised that you can't just lock the game's threads to a smaller number of cores, but I can imagine the DRM some games ship with preventing you from doing it. Booting up a VM with its core count limited is a clever workaround... I'm guessing a Windows VM would have reduced GPU performance because of the way pass-through works.
Not sure I understand what you mean by "a third and a sixth of the reward", can you explain?
The question is what possible orders DHS could have from their leadership that would make seizing PPE destined for a hospital even considerable.
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This isn't a knock per Perl, but looking back, it's really interesting to see how the two communities handled their respective transitions: Python 2 to Python 3, and Perl 5 to Perl 6 (now called raku [1])

I say it isn't a knock because I think they were equally fine with the goals: Perl was looking to make a bold break towards an unknown future [2], and Python wanted a very slow and sustainable migration.

I'm glad to see Python 3 go mainstream, I'm glad that Python 2 succeeded so well, and I'm glad there are segments of computer science that still throw mugs and aim for the moon.

[1] http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2019/10/larry-has-approved-...

[2] https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.packrats/2002/07/msg3.h...
Do you know what happens if you can’t take physical delivery? As in the financial consequences including penalties assigned by the exchange?
The original timeline was very much a guess. By the time that people got into the details in 2010-2014, it was clearer it would take much longer. This doesn't make it failure unless you lost a bet with someone on the timeline.
If this is a serious question: People wanted the Federal government to act as a single purchaser to source and transparently distribute material to the states, leveraging efficiencies of scale and a view of the whole situation.

No one was asking for the federal government to seize already purchased material and do things with it with zero transparency or accountability.
I think it is cruel that their language was taken away from them, but I find it inspiring they are trying to rebuild their linguistics community. Not every child will like what they are taught, but if they can create an environment where the language is used, the kids are likely to follow. I hardly see how that is cruel.
Ask HN: Laid-off marketing manager. What tech skills/knowledge should I learn?
I was recently laid-off due to coronavirus. I was an early-ish career (graduated 6 years ago from undergrad) marketing manager at a very late-stage startup (was there for a year and a half); not based in a major tech hub and I have no technical background (liberal arts major!). I want to future-proof my career. Should I totally reskill and become a developer (would I even like being a dev??)? Or should I just upskill in my current function (learn more about tech at a high-level, learn how to use some of the new tools)? I do enjoy marketing, and there will always be a need for it. Really appreciate your thoughts!
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Thank me later. :D
I would say even poverty and chaos is preferable to the collective farms and gulags that killed over 100 million during the Soviet regime. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" for context, even just the first chapter of his massive work is extremely eye opening.

Update here since I am rate limited. Check wikipedia for non combatant death counts. Read the first chapter of Gulag Archipelago, and with the very bloody revolution, disasterous collective farming, and constant purges of innocent civilians, you may find 100 million very plausible, if not even sounding on the low side.

Also telling is that Stalin had the UN change the definition of genocide so his gulags and policy disasters would not be counted.
This kind of reminds me of the plot of the current season on Westworld (no spoilers). The amount of data needed to really have "enough data" is often not practical, therefore (ironically) never letting you apply it "for practical purposes."
I (and other climbers) do this as well when setting up.
Calling out rope is correctly set in harness, has 5 points of loop, belayer has locked carabiner and set in their harness and called out ready to climb.
It seems silly on the 500th time, but if someone rushes up and someone is not set could be a very dangerous situation
Non-New Yorkers love to speculate about the end of New York with a passion which fascinates me as someone who has lived here for two decades. I love it here. Not for everyone. If you dig your exurb keep at it and enjoy.

NYC always has a transient crowd and a permanent crowd. It doesn't surprise me that a lot of the people who would have moved to the burbs within 1-5 years are accelerating that timeline. For us permanent residents we can't imagine living anywhere else. All of this was said after 9/11. I don't find that my rent today is lower than it was in 2002.

Let me also add that people today are fleeing dense areas under the belief that they can escape Coronavirus. Newsflash - everyone is probably going to get this. Flatten the curve was never about escaping the virus altogether - it is about smoothing out the burden on the healthcare system.
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I think that has to do with how people sometimes do analysis for trading. There's fundamental analysis, which looks at exactly that when attempting to determine the price to bid for a security, but then there's the bubblier "technical analysis" which really just looks at historical and current trends and attempts to divine whether buying now means you might be able to sell in the future.

I'd imagine people just assumed perfect liquidity here, and that they'd be able to sell even "at a small loss which is better than nothing," not realizing that nothing or negative (i.e. you're gonna pay somebody to take this oil off your hands or build your own tanks) is a valid outcome.
See, I know you think you are being clever, but you're not. Here is the problem.

The fed has dropped the ball already. It needs to show more leadership going forward. The time for the fed seizing PPE procurement and distribution has already passed though, at least in the way they are doing it. The only thing they are doing is taking PPE that is needed now and keeping it away from those that expect to get it.

Basically, the fed are putting on seat belts after the car crash.
neat, how fast is the average time to complete a full 8k scan? I imagine it needs to be on the order of <1ms for it to look like a complete frame and not see rolling shutter-type effects.
Double-down on a real subject like math/physics/chemistry or maybe engineering, and then the wizards in the current shop won’t seem like such wizards after all.

Workplaces generally aren’t the most efficient avenues for personal development.
> Republicans in congress very specifically cut the budgets that were supposed to be used to rotate out expired materials.

Bold claim. Care to support it with a reference?
see: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/announcing-use-sound-react...
the resale bit is happening for sure.
I'm one of those people who live
You suggested paying a dividend was similar to paying employees. When throwaway2048 challenged this, you brought up stock-based compensation. Surely if such compensation (including dividends) was an obligation in the same way as wages, then the employee would have some recourse when it's interrupted. In other words, they could sue.
> Given you stated you are not at risk, your actual chance of death would be something like .007%, or 7 deaths in 10,000

Where is this number coming from?

(Also, .007% is 7 per 100,000.)
Another casualty of python 3?
Someone close to me has contacts and friends in Hong Kong. One offered to send him a box of masks for free(I think just surgical masks, not N95). The plan was to give a few to friends/family, and his wife's coworkers, who are in-home caretakers for the elderly. The rest would be donated to a hospital or similar. But the box never arrived. It hit customs and was seized.
Personally, the main software I use at $DAY_JOB doesn't support python 3 yet.

I'm not looking forward to the scramble when it does upgrade, as we're using a ton of community modules that may or may not be abandoned.
Possibly giving the money directly to the employees, rather than paying their employers?
You mean pitchforks?
Trump said the troops stole it
https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/politics/donald-trump-iraqi-s...
Bingo. If you need Adobe CC and want a unix-y environment then you're using it on a Mac. And there is a cost incentive for Adobe and Apple to make them work.

Valve is expanding into the linux/unix space because Microsoft has set up their MS Store, which threatens to undermine them directly.
Yes, drug & alcohol addiction is widespread in the general non-homeless population and makes it difficult to ensure steady income. When the cost of rent rises dramatically, this means people with those issues are likely to find themselves homeless. Addictions are difficult to kick in the best of times (who among us doesn't know of some rich kid who's been in and out of rehab into their 30s?) and basically impossible when homeless. Not sure what your point is here.
Why is it hard? Honestly. Add a "t" to "no" and you get a basic Boolean query.
Thanks for all the great work! Keep it up, and remember to wash your hands! :D
You are a gentleman and a scholar
Oh, they're getting the PPE. Through these "shady" non-standard deals.
Curious why this is flagged. pro-CCP bias on the site? Currently it is at 178 votes, so obviously it is of interest to HN readers.
Innuendo and rumor mongering? That's where HN is now?

These are serious accusations, and you owe it to the rest of us to provide some serious proof.

EDIT:

And no, politico is not serious, nor does it address this innuendo:

> I wouldn't be surprised if the federal government is indirectly propping up their stockpile with these seized shipments.
Why would I choose this over python 3? Is it for 2.x legacy code that can’t be upgraded to 3.x?
> What I don't understand is why the sudden move today? Did the longs think they had a place to put the oil on Friday but found out over the weekend they had no place to put it? Just seems like you would know what to do with the oil on Friday. Note this is not a rhetorical question, I would sincerely like an answer.

Guys like myself, an ex fund manager, could be tourists in the oil market. I know I was, speculating occasionally on oil without knowing a whole lot about the details. Plenty of macro guys are similar, they bet on the large movements as the opportunites present themselves and don't worry about the details.

So what has probably happened is some of these tourists have had a few contracts left over that they forgot about or didn't discover in their position keeping until their prime brokers phoned them, and they had to dump into a market under very special conditions. Hopefully not very many contracts.

In normal times if you screwed up and had to do delivery, it stil wouldn't be a big problem, because the storage is available and you essentially just buy it (by trading with a guy who actually knows how to organize it), costing relatively little.
Yeah, looking back at it there's definitely a question raised by how it was just one data point, especially considering that this also means there likely wasn't a lot of institutional support on YC's end for the one remote startup as well. It wouldn't be deliberate but if you've just got that one remote startup you aren't going to be really trying to make remote programming work and making all the resources remote-friendly.

For other experiments, YC has discussed publically (fellowship, accepting people with no idea, early decision) there were what seemed externally at least to be well-run experiments with multiple accepted and some longer-term tracking to see how that worked. No remote seems to finally be getting that proper experimentation and treatment, I guess we'll see how that goes.

There are a lot of benefits to in person, I personally prefer working on things in-person to remote (in biotech, in-person really matters), but it'll be an interesting experiment this batch to see how much room there is for fully remote startup development across all the sectors they invest, both in terms of the batch itself and the companies individually.
Unfortunately, right now it seems that there is incentive out there for oil to "go missing" for a profit -- presumably at the cost of the environment. I'm curious if anyone is thinking about trying to replace their fracking fluid with oil for a while...
Kilroy Was Here
3.8 seems to be much more twitchy about exact versions of dependencies, so I've had problems running the AWS cli stuff on 3.8 at times, because there's no set of non-conflicting dependencies. (oftentimes due to minor/patch level version mismatches)
Ok. I did. Now what should I consider, that if my aunt had wheels she'd be a tea cart?
I doubt it. It's impossible to calculate how much damage one does to the environment, but the single biggest cause for extra fuel use (which correlates almost perfectly with environmental damage) is living in non dense environments since all the mass required for living has to be moved that much further.

I don't think it's possible for anyone, even a well off individual, to offset what living in 1/4 acre or more lots does to society as a whole, since mass transit is no longer feasible, which means density is less feasible, and it causes a whole chain reaction of extra fuel use.
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The article doesn't describe anything being siezed. The masks went to where they were itended.
I don't know if you have a working project, but if you do, let me throw an idea at you. Instead of trying for an 8k projector, give me something that can handle a couple of lines of text -- say 6 lines by 25 characters, and supports a simple serial API.

Augmented reality is a great dream, but an unobtrusive heads-up-display for simple information would be revolutionary in itself. Baseline applications like a clock/calendar/compass, maybe reminders, or a no-look note-taking tool. Next-gen involving real-life closed captioning, or, when supplemented with a camera and an offline database, a basic "who is this person I am talking to" / protocol officer. Further than that a very rough "am I facing the right way" waypoint finder, etc.

If the hardware can be made cheaply for this sort of application, use cases will emerge faster than you can shake a stick at. Overlaying reality, etc., are way less interesting without huge amounts of compute.
Congratulations, looks like a really nice language.

One nitpick: I think "val" looks too much like "var" and this will make it harder do differentiate them by code skimming. I suggest changing "val" to something like "const", or "fix", or "imm"...
The 256 byte category of demos is inspirational. The idea that a relative handful of symbols that you could write on a sheet of notebook paper and view in its entirety could produce minutes of video and sound is hard to wrap my mind around.

To save anyone else the clicking here’s the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imquk_3oFf4
Japan was certainly trying to save the Olympics but when it became clear nobody would attend, numbers "skyrocketed" the same way US numbers did, ie. we started actually testing people and confirming what everyone else already knew, that this thing spread like wildfire.

Testing isn't even useful at this point, we should operate under the assumption everyone has or will have it, and just treat those who are having complications. You don't need to get tested to know you have a cold, just deal with it.
People with just a paper office, used to deal in numbers rather than anything physical, and with no place to store physical goods, will now have to figure out where and how to store lots of oil?
Yes, I don't think HN leadership is pro-CCP. However, I do think there is some kind of CCP influence at work. Whether it is normal HN participants that are more understanding of CCP, and dislike the blanket dismissal they get, or there are actual CCP agents at work, is unclear to me. It is clear there is dislike of the outright criticism that CCP gets. My comments critical of the CCP get many more downvotes than even I am used to getting.

I also think that HN mods should have access to enough user data to be able to run some tests and see if particular accounts are more targeted towards CCP critical posts and comments than would be expected by a normal HN reader.
This is a case of understand your contracts.
Personally, I find hard plastic fabric bags (multiple use, not foil) to be as good. Some of those have 40 years now and I'm not the first user (nylon). (Formerly known as potato sacks.) However, you do have to be diligent and not leave them lying about and they have to be durable enough to not tear, or mended.
Hard polypropylene fiber bags are also good and durable, take less energy to make.
PET is not durable enough, even thick.

A good cotton or linen or jute bag will live for some years of use too though. Main trade-off is water resistance. Only waxed woolen bags and leather (obnoxious for other reasons) are waterproof.

Another travesty are packing filler "peanuts", "airbags" and foam and plastic tape.
I'm both surprised and really not that your CFIs make fun of pointing and calling, then again I've encountered CFIs who don't know things AOPA Air Safety has been hammering on for years.
> IMO, Python 2 is a genericized trademark like Kleenex at this point.

Kleenex is often used to refer to facial tissue, regardless of manufacturer of the facial tissue.

Python 2 is used to refer to one of the releases of the CPython 2 interpreter, most often the latest release, with earlier releases typically referred to with their first point (e.g. "2.6" as I've seen elsewhere in this thread). People rarely refer to Pypy or Jython as "Python 2", at least in my experience. They may refer to compatibility with a point release of the official CPython.

For example, Pypy describes itself as with the following:

> PyPy implements Python 2.7.13 and 3.6.9. It supports all of the core language, passing the Python 2.7 test suite and most of the 3.6 test suite.

They're not saying PyPy is Python 2, rather that it implements the programming language represented by point release Python 2.7.13. Elsewhere, they talk about compatibility with Python. Nowhere do the PyPy developers refer to their product as "Python 2".
My "based on porting windows" comment was based on my understanding that SDL started with windows.

Wikipedia says: "Sam Lantinga created the library, first releasing it in early 1998, while working for Loki Software. He got the idea while porting a Windows application to Macintosh."

Even the naming of directmedia suggests microsoft roots to me: direct3d directplay directx, etc.

But my larger point was that I don't know how you would create a "native linux" game - I think high-functioning games on linux use cross-platform toolkits of one type or another.

I don't know maybe you could cobble something together part wayland, part mesa, part pulseaudio, part v4l, part /dev/input...
This is what you are saying:

HN: You should have been wearing a seat belt when the car crashed.
Feds: Puts on the seat belt after the car crashed.
HN: That is dumb.

Which is it folks? What seat belt state will satisfy your wishes?

The fed has dropped the ball already. It needs to show more leadership going forward. The time for the fed handling PPE procurement and distribution has already passed though, at least in the way they are doing it. The only thing they are doing is taking PPE that is needed now and keeping it away from those that expect to get it.
And when I search for "men without hats" I see men from Men Without Hats with hats. Language is hard.
That reminds me of the GS Aluminum storage warehouse story.
Community advocate here, this released in GitLab 12.9 version

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/03/22/gitlab-12-9-rel...
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/32894

Here's the documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/issue_data_an...
Of course, the shakedown requires restriction of supplies right?
You'll be happy to know we are indeed organizing! https://www.taxamazon.net/sign

Perhaps one day you'll appreciate the psychopathy of telling people they should just move away from their lifelong home. Not everyone is a detached knowledge worker hopping around sampling cities like they're a plate of hors d'oeuvres. Moving is also quite expensive.
You'd be amazed out how many stale docker vm's are out there running old python versions - docker doesn't solve this issue and in fact I've seen docker images get updated less rather than more often ironically!
I will try this - thank you !
Yes, the rise in rent has been quite dramatic recently - and our social services have been utterly ill-prepared to handle the fallout, because of low taxes.
The point is that the web rings and directories were an important source of good PageRank input. By killing them off, Google basically clearcut all their resources and did nothing to replant, and now the web is becoming a desert where nothing can grow.
I am very guilty of the "Over-constraining argument types" antipattern. Trying to get better at this.