skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Saying that everyone is a genius just devalues the word."

The saying is "every CHILD is a genius". (not every burned out adult). Childs have a incredibly potential, than can grow in many directions. And the saying is also more intended to the teachers, opposite to the weeding out approach. So no, it is not meant literal, it has to be understood in a context. But yes, the idea is, that the teacher treats every child, as if they have the potential to be a genious. (and I actually do believe, most do, and it is sad, that so few actually get the opportunity to develope their potential and rather learn to sit still and repeat and behave and repeat what is demanded)

" but makes it clear that not everyone gets the same amount of points to invest into the skill tree"

Probably not, but I think it is hard to measure. It is also a question what skills you consider to be relevant. Some extreme example, I heard from my sisters friend who have a mentaly handicapped child .. which clearly did not have many skills .. but a big smile the whole time, that made people happy who interacted with him. Could be considered a valuable skill for society, too.

(but I don't know, if the parents smile the time, as he is probably quite labour intensive)
Could this be related to non-network performance? The WebKit team seems very conservative in adding features to preserve/balance CPU usage and Battery Consumption. Which I generally applaud them for.
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In exchange for that money, Handshake appears to want the Internet to donate something of great value (authority over the DNS) so Handshake can sell it back to them.

It doesn't even matter what I think about this design. Speaking positively, not normatively: this is never going to happen. Everyone from billion dollar corporations to academic research labs to inexplicably influential Internet curmudgeons working out of basements will recoil from this.
Sweden has reported 1,511 deaths and 13,822 cases. Does that mean 7,555 of the 13,822 cases have passed through the ICU or a significant number of people have died without entering the ICU?
I've been writing TILs for 5 years
Corporations are also fairly rational beasts when it comes to incentives - they want to capture wealth, or failing that they create more wealth then capture some of the it. They are a known quantity. It is somewhat possible to anticipate what they will do. They tend towards not discriminating irrationally.

Governments are comparatively hard to read. They are by and large not motivated by anything specific and are often possessed by destructive short-term zeitgeists (how many demographics haven't been targeted as a matter of government policy at some point?). It is difficult to anticipate where the hammer will fall next.

Over the short term the only thing making the government trustworthy is inertia. Over the medium and long term they are much less trustworthy than a corporation.
Producer “Devious Dreams” talks about his craft, sense of style and more
> giving closing braces their own lines

Oh for the love of God, please don't! That would make things even more unreadable.

Also, the closing braces are often accompanied by error handling and cleaning up code.

You might like the golang approach better, which is really the Linux kernel approach when I think about it....
The blog post shows two Python snippets starting with "if True:" and different indentation and says the snippets "have a different meaning". However, in this case the difference between the snippets is mainly in their syntax and not in their meaning. The example would have been better if "if True:" was replaced by "if False:" or "if foo:".

if True:
x()
y()

if True:
x()
y()
Reminds me of an episode of Tales of the Unexpected set in a German university https://youtu.be/naiTvr8TICI
The main issue I have with swapping Perl with Raku is that a major strength of Perl is its ubiquitousness. Except on Windows, it's almost certainly installed on 90% of the systems I have ever used. Meanwhile, rakudo is not even in the repositories of most distributions. It's not very encouraging, if I have to be honest.
The aesthetics of Dexter's Laboratory or Samurai Jack are superb. The latter in particular is a work of art, even experimental at times (as well as fun!). So I welcome this in cartoons.
> you now have a numeric optimization problem as the body of the inner loop of another optimization problem

Isn't solving the physics problem a straightforward ODE integration?
Since 1985 that COBOL can be structured, and since 2002 object oriented as well, with the latest ISO update being done in 2014

Besides compiling to native code, there are compilers that target JVM and CLR as well.
I've heard from friends in large nonprofits that they're expecting the funding landscape to change dramatically. Funders are potentially looking in very different directions now, presumably. Or at least nonprofits have to worry that they are, and it will be reflected in the next round of grant-seeking
I hate Bluetooth also but I did think of a use case where it could be great:

If you had a honeypot accessible only by Bluetooth, you could pass off delays and dropped service for quite a while before the attackers figured out that it wasn't BT just being BT. :-)
Interesting! Would this help with abysmal performance of ssh -X too over the LAN?
The data out there indicate a 50% ICU death rate in general.

Ventilators seem to exacerbate the condition for covid patients.

Sweden seem to have better success with intensive care than average.

Are we perhaps intubating less.

Train of thought ^.
I get the argument, but the estimated savings are bogus.

All the images on the mobile version of apple.com add up to a grand total of 500KB. If reducing their sizes by ~40% (that is, 200KB) would save 2.25s, it means the whole page (just over 3.5MB) currently takes 40 seconds to load. But obviously nobody in the developed world is waiting 40 seconds for apple.com to load. The real savings are probably somewhere between 0.05s and 0.5s depending on network conditions. Not insignificant, but much less than what is promised.

If you really wanted to minimize the time it takes to load apple.com, you should start with the 10 scripts, 7 stylesheets, and 9 webfonts that together make up over 80% of the page size and consume a considerable amount of resources to parse and execute. But the benchmark doesn't tell you that. It's just a checklist of micro-optimizations that doesn't even start with realistic assumptions.
Or equally possible they didn’t see meaningful real world improvements?
Mentioned in Jim Akhaleli's (sp?) "Revolutions" episode about the smart-phone currently on Netflix (my lad was watching it, really good for juniors or non-technical people IMO).
From PM2 to Docker: Automatic Restarts
>, but I would like to know how WebAssembly is bare metal programming to start with.

We are getting into "splitting hairs" territory but let me attempt to untangle this thread because it seems to be hung up on what "bare metal" means.

Yes, if we're using "bare metal" to only mean real semiconductor chip, WASM is not that. It's an abstract virtual machine. So yes, in that strict sense, WASM is analogous to JVM and CLR.

But.....

I'm charitably interpreting gp's comment (6gvONxR4sf7o) and he's using WASM as his _relative_ (not absolute) perspective of _that_ being "bare metal". Ok, if we play along with that, WASM is not analogous the JVM/CLR because it is lower level[1]. Thus a non-managed language like C++ can more easily target WASM-flavor-of-bare-metal for high performance rather than a managed-C++/CLI targeting .NET CLR.

Yes, it's a subtle difference. WASM is more "bare-metal-ish" than JVM ... relatively speaking. I just don't think JVM languages can really do the same thing as WASM as the Google/Mozilla/Apple/MS specifically engineered Web Assembly to be a target for low-level-bare-metal languages like C/C++. In contrast, Sun & James Gosling deliberately didn't engineer JVM Java byte code to be a compilation target for low-level C/C++.

This means something cpu-intensive like AutoCAD or possibly Adobe Premiere Pro can hypothetically be written to target WASM and will perform better than if those apps were re-written in Java to target a Java web browser plugin. E.g. Java's JVM doesn't have value types and that architecture choice is very unfriendly to storing/manipulating millions of 3d points for a CAD program. In contrast, WASM's architecture opens up a few more "bare-metal-ish" programming domains.

The various choices of JVM languages like Kotlin/Clojure/JRuby/etc actually don't address what WASM is attempting to accomplish.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-does-Java-bytecode-compare-to-WASM...
Too Many Side Projects? Built a “Nano” Portfolio to Include 'Em
Sarah Friar: Nextdoor’s ‘chief neighbour’ extends her watch
guide me brother how to get into this?
It’s really not about “evidence-based approach” per se, it’s more because of the notion of “expert authority”. The notion is that the government are heavily relying on the “expert authority” related to the current situation, in this case, FHM. This means that they follow what the experts are saying, which is by design not as mere information or guidance. This happens pretty much in any government body, like Swedish prison and probation services. The prime minister have very little to say about details of what they do (“minister rule”). The decisions are based on science rather than pure politics because they rely on that current government body for that. That does mean that they are late, which to I agree isn’t optimal but a trade off. The other reason is because the government have been slowed down due to the fact that they have to follow the current law. There’s no way for them to circumvent that as it is.
Like user rendall, I was appalled by the article's insinuation anyone can produce this art. The examples the author gives can definitely NOT be done by someone without artistic skill.

I'm not sure I understand the article. This is an art style which is currently fashionable. Complaining about art styles mankind finds outrageous has been a constant since the first caveman slapped pigments with his hand on his cave wall.

Really, what is new with this article?
At least in the UK there is some guidance and judgement around discounted prices being related to a price that was actually used in the past.

https://www.asa.org.uk/advice-online/promotional-savings-cla...

I'm not sure how much of it legally enforceable vs adhering to some code of conduct.
Refusing to answer the question doesn't mean you won't have to make that decision. Better to've considered these questions ahead of time. People run into this when they haven't decided how much they're willing to pay before putting their pets down

The 5%/X 3%/Y question is also hard to answer since one also has to consider how much is it mitigating, if I survive with chronic pain or something then that loses value. Assuming full mitigation:

I'd be willing to pay ~16000$ to skip a 1/30 chance of death (valuing ~480000$ to live ~50 years, or 9600/year being-alive tax)

For my parents I'd be willing to pay ~9000$ to skip a 1/20 chance of one of their's death. (valuing ~180000$ for them to live ~30 years, or 6000/year being-alive tax)
There is webpjs I think.

http://webpjs.appspot.com/

Basically if a browser does support webp, the script does nothing, but otherwise I think this script ends up supporting the image via javascript.
> This "dangerous" drug has been used in medicine for 60 years

Note that the doses required here are MUCH higher (one European hospital tried 1000mg doses) which is toxic. It can result in blindness, heart failure and other issues.
I'm a lecturer who teaches history of computing, here are two of my video lectures, maybe of interest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7VjiMVRQ6M&list=PLjrJD5nSYN...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQO6jWSVz0&list=PLjrJD5nSYN...
Comments like this are why I normally avoid posting personal things on HN.
I would assume that’s entirely possible, but something like this could be done using the HTML5 <video> or <audio> elements for video or audio codecs (there’s even a DOM API to do it! [0]), and some browsers advertised WebP support via the HTTP Accept header [1]. For tracking, I’d assume it’s not very useful these days apart from determining who’s using Safari?

Edit: Not to mention that the onerror event handler on the <img> tag has always been able to find out if an image didn’t display [2].

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#dom-naviga...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Content_ne...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl...
Yeah. QLC is bad but mature TLC with a DRAM cache can be an excellent choice b
Good point! Updated.
How cryptography is used to monitor the spread of Covid-19
Windows shell is a good reason not to use Windows. It's like an early 2000s KDE desktop mixed with a bunch of Gnome and ancient Motif apps. On the command line side, PowerShell isn't half bad, but it still requires you to write C# from time to time to make things work... The biggest four reasons to use something other than Linux (Mac included):

* Adobe software, MS Office, pro audio, pro video, and other income-dependent software tools mostly run on Windows and/or Macs and don't have a Linux version.

* Ease of asset management for the company (yes, it can be done with Linux, but Apple, MS and Google have great tools for managing huge numbers of computers). Google (Chrome) and Apple have a great story on configuration management by having much more consistent hardware.

* Company issued laptop (usually combined with the need for MS Office & corporate asset management)

Oh, and I love VS Code, but it really needs a full org-mode equivalent. It's the only thing that keeps me reaching for Emacs at least once a day.
I wish there was a way to keep track of the new forks/browsers stemming from this.
Would like to try different chromium browsers that supports extensions, hacks and modifications.
I seriously wonder how this will affect online dating. Not that I've dated in quite a few years, but even if I wanted to, I wouldn't go back because last time I did, the proliferation of obnoxious Instagram filters and photoshopping made the experience unenjoyable. Fake people aren't appealing. I would bet that the ease at which the average person can deep fake will only make matters much worse. There will always be a demand for Tinder, Match, Bumble, etc., but they will be strictly used for hookups.(I know some will say that's what they are already for, but people are always making that argument for every dating app, thus I can't take that opinion very seriously) Actual dating will have to either go back into being more in-person or require a third-party to handle photography.
This is a pretty easy question to answer ... here are the links to history articles that I thought enough of to bookmark (note that a few are NOT computer/tech related) - https://pinboard.in/u:smoyer/t:history.
The fact that Twitter refuses to enforce its TOS when the POTUS issues a call to armed insurrection against state governors is an existential threat to the United Ststes.
New Language Features in Idiomatic Scud 2.13a2
The readme should link to the white paper at https://github.com/gactjs/store/blob/master/docs/white-paper... so people know what gact is.
I can accept many reasons for not revealing at the time, jeopardising a criminal investigation and that could cover national security investigations. So I can see how the judge has angled this.

What I can not understand or appreciate is that such requests can not be made public after said investigations are closed. Alas that approach is now also curtailed and would have to be raised as a separate avenue now. Which with this judgement, will now make that a little more harder to pursue. Been nice if the Judge had allowed that avenue of release, but that was not catered for in the scope of how this case was put forward.

Maybe if Twitter had approached with - what is a fair and reasonable amount of time until we can make such requests public? Or along those lines, then that avenue of release would of been within the judgment remit. Though I'm no lawyer, and may well that this approach they have taken is the best as it allows two bites of the cherry and an angle to appeal.

One just hopes the matter is not as clear cut and settled as it stands.
Yeah sure but why implement it at all in a beta? I remember reading that years ago employees from both Mozilla and Apple looked into the format and both concluded it wasn't worth implementing. Firefox dragged it's feet with this too and eventually caved early last year, probably due to pressure from web developers looking at Google's lighthouse score telling them to use webp.
Please don’t drain my battery with crap like this when my phone has dedicated hardware for JPEG decoding.
> They aren't interested in the things C++ programmers are interested in.

This assumption only holds if people didn't want to do systems programming before. Many people who wanted to do it crashed into C++ and then said "yeah okay, not for me", which calls this into question.
RFC: A practical mechanism for applying ML for optimization policies in LLVM
Microsoft has it too:

https://venturebeat.com/2019/10/03/microsofts-ai-powered-eye...

Seems they've been working on it since 2002:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/eye-gaze-co...
Never heard about that, and I heard a lot of stories in the last 15 years about fencing.
Study:Empirical treatment:Hydroxychloroquine+AZM for 636 suspected COVID19 cases
My wife runs a home for old people with dementia.

A lot (100s) of deaths where old people have died of flu-like symptoms is counted as covid deaths.
Teating has not been possible until just recently.
Twitter requested permission to reveal exact number of requests.

Companies are allowed to reveal gagged legal process in ranges of 1000, starting at 0, for six-month periods. Combined FISC and NSL requests can be revealed in ranges of 250.
I was concerned about the index funds for a moment...
I mean, delete the source, but store an intermediate representation that can be decompiled into any other language for reading.

Languages with good type systems and tooling support a workflow where you mostly rely on Intellisense hints and docs, and never read the code itself.

That, but taken to its logical conclusion: if you never read the source code, you don't need to store the source code.

The missing part is the ability to define algorithms as modifications of existing algorithms.
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land(1959)
New York state has had 1 person in 1,200 [0] die from COVID-19, and is on track for 1 in 1,000. Do you know 1,000 people? If you lived in NYC, how many of your acquaintances would have died? How many people you know die from the flu every year?

Not even the most extreme estimates I've seen suggest that NY has anything approaching 50% immunity. Reopening NY and letting people catch CV19 would double, triple, ? the death rate.

There is no suggestion that NY is special as regards total numbers. (Velocity, due to population density, assume yes.) This is not the flu.

[0] A of 2020-04-17 880 deaths per 1M population. http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
What we’re being asked to believe is that the government doesn’t want you to see their backdoor search queries on Twitter’s database. That I do believe, regardless of whether there’s probable cause to think national threats among Twitter users exist. And hey, maybe it’s true... exposing government surveillance overreach probably is considered a threat by the people doing the surveillance, right?

OTOH, there probably are at least a few investigations into real cases of abusive or criminal activity. This may be getting used to watch what’s happening in other countries. There are a lot of possibilities for gray area questions that are neither clearly legal nor clearly illegal, and Uncle Sam knows that exposure could cause things to lean toward clearly illegal.

Let’s not pretend that privacy of Twitter messages is a human right, though. It’s a for-profit business that was already monitoring your traffic, and the government is asking for what Twitter already has access to. While the government may have a very different agenda, using Twitter doesn’t come with any privacy guarantees in the first place. Twitter’s not going to come arrest you, but they were never under a legal obligation to help protect you from the government or anyone else, and Twitter DMs are not private in a legal sense.
Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy
Covid-19 Could Help Solve Climate Riddles
High glucose levels may explain why some flu patients have more severe symptoms
That, or they're IT people and their employer is paying for the software.
So couldn't it just be that New York is admitting many more sicker people into their ICUs vs Sweden's ICUs performing better?
Browsers tend to advertise what formats they accept outside of a very basic set to the server on requests via the HTTP Accept header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...

For example, Firefox on macOS sent this Accept header for this request: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8

Chrome sent text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,/;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
> I don't see where politics come into this.

Short answer, because Politicians publicly pushed Hydroxychloroquine. You should know that.
Is the vague concept of national security that you raise the legal foundation for the actions the government is taking?

(of course the answer is no, it is not)

Sliding into Twitter DMs and baiting fools to say they are going to use fake explosives aren't particularly productive things for the government to be doing, but there's probably a reasonable legal foundation for most of it.
"The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1%"

"At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available"

"The results will eventually be similar for all countries"

"Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people."
Counterpoint: a system that runs for 20, 30, 40 years without any serious downtime is the definition of long term thinking.
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan is excellent. It traces the history of Unix from the early days at Bell Labs through the period where it reached widespread use in the rest of the world. It's a fascinating history of people building the command line tools that we still use today, and the environment that allows those tools to be combined in powerful ways.

I came away with a much clearer picture of how these systems were developed, and I am a little better on the command line for understanding the original philosophy better as well.

https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d...
The History of the Hawaiian Shirt
That's true:) how does it contradict?
> The surge in demand is being driven almost entirely by state unemployment systems. Most of these systems haven't seen a surge in unemployment claims since the 2009 recession and haven't had to change the underlying rules governing eligibility in even longer. Once the systems are patched and/or the surge in new claims subsides, 90% of this sudden demand for "Cobalt programmers" will evaporate.

I generally agree but I also believe that this whole exercise might be an impetus for some states to migrate these services to more modern languages to prevent this type of crisis in the future.
Which is the line taken by the guy who made his own video call bot shown in social media recently.

https://redpepper.land/blog/zoombot/
Or webkit is just a smaller team prioritising other features over every random, new API and standard that the Chrome team comes up with and later abandons.