skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minecraft (the non-Java version) is on everything with a screen. Every game console this generation and last, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, every desktop OS, Apple TV, Gear VR, Fire TV. Simply managing all those different builds has to take lots of developer-hours, not to mention the fact that they're still adding features regularly.
“One day, a computer will fit on a desk”
Does that say it's harmful to wear masks? The WHO's guidance has been that it isn't necessary for individuals to wear medical PPE. There are valid concerns about this, both related to shortages and improper care.
As much as I love R, there are indeed quirks that I think R allows to happen but shouldn't.

For example:

mean(2, 4) # outputs 2
mean(c(2, 4)) # outputs 3

I really don't see why R allows you to enter mean(2,4) without giving an error.
It's clearly missing storing data uuencoded in Route53 TXT records.
100% feel you.

Last time I worked at a big company, there was lots of dead wood, but one guy in particular was just a massive liability. Nice guy, tried hard, but utterly incompetent, and (I think there is a term for this?) he was unaware / ignorant of how incompetent he was. He would often check in code that would break the build (team of 300 engineers, large telecom system), he would write and run scripts that would bring computing clusters to their knees (this was late 90s, there are probably ways to mitigate that now), he would consume lots of high-quality talent's time with basic questions, etc.

I literally asked my manager if we could pay Leo to sit home and play video games. OF course, as you said, everyone's gotta look busy.

Here's the punchline: I learned a new term (to me, at the time... not sure I've heard it again) from a greybeard/wizard there -- this guy was a genius. He had a very appropriate term for Leo: negative producer.

Bingo!
C. elegans is a good example of this. They have males and hermaphordites, but interestingly enough, the ratios of those two from lab and wild strains differed by quite a bit.

Turns out, in a stable lab environment, hermaphrodites were more efficient. However, once you started changing the environment populations with males could always adapt faster.
I stand corrected regarding their prediction. I don't understand much Swedish, so I could not follow their model. But it appears to rely on an extrapolation of data from late March. Do they include any cross-validation of the model with current data?

April 9, 10, 11: 200, 148, 240 new cases were reported in Stockholm

April 21, 22, 23: 163, 289, 281 new cases were reported (and might still be subject to upward revision)

As we both agree, reported cases is a fairly uncertain metric, but I don't see a peak on April 10. Do you?

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6...
Reproduction between close relatives isn't recommended because of the chance of offspring getting multiple recessive genes. That's orthogonal to the genetic diversity benefits from sexual reproduction. (In asexual reproduction, you don't have to worry about offspring inheriting multiple recessive genes.)
You gotta dig deep first if you want to build a skyscraper, as I always heard.
I always wondered why PCs maintained support for 3.5" disks, but not for 5.25". Fortunately, beforehand I had presciently copied my hundreds of floppies to CD-ROMs. But I still keep finding more :-)
All three are from commodity commercial software, finding other websites of the same period that used Urchin/GA and ForeSee should get you more or less the same files.
Everything is relative: compared to Azure virtual machine family naming, AWS is not so bad!
There is no reference here to common usage or to any sort of establishment of standard practices, etc. This is just naval-gazing to put hard boundaries on something that is intrinsically not well-defined. In particular, all of the things that are explicitly excluded from "games" are things that some people would argue are games, that the author is arguing is not, which is an explicitly prescriptive practice.
While I think that there is merit to your argument, I feel like it could have been presented without questioning the author's intelligence or mental state.
if these kinds of optimizations make a difference for your applications write it in native code, dammitl
In a lot of countries villagers plant their own wheat, mill it and bake bread for the entire year. Others buy 50-80lbs bags of wheat. Wheat is great for hard times, it fills your stomach and relatively cheap. It's a peace of mind as well, no matter what happens we have something
They just have more time now to actually look up. Venus is same as ever, the brightest object in the sky besides the Sun and the Moon. It was at its greatest elongation from the Sun in late March, so of course it's very visible.
I have two cars. 03 VW Jetta TDI with 270k miles and an 09 Nissan Altima with 260k miles. Though I do get plenty of chances to try my hand at being a mechanic.
> The fix is always to replace static_cast with reinterpret_cast.

That sounds like a fast trip to aliasing violations (aka UB). There's no way you only ever casted from/to byte arrays or void* when you applied the above fix over 15 years.
Ask HN: Is Kim Jong-Un Dead?
I subscribe to Headspace and like it OK, but I definitely subscribe because I like that particular dude's voice and it's a positive trigger for me now. Otherwise there's nothing particularly special about them compared to Insight Timer or any other mature service.

This looks cool, but it's also the most direct advertisement I've seen on HN.
Venus is currently very close to us. See:

https://theskylive.com

Also the air is a lot cleaner these days with everyone staying at home.
The Floppy Disk Boombox
I’m interested in the specific cases where it isn’t (where it’s larger than 64-bits). I can’t think of an example where a simple object pointer is larger than 64 bits. Can you run the JNI on those platforms?
Amazon A2I is now generally available
Add it up: Azure’s Golang problem
And/or in section 8 housing...
I think I'm leaning toward limited liability enables amoral/unethical behavior. I really would be open to considering extending corporate liability not just to the officers but to shareholders as well.

E.g., if a company is found liable for illegal toxic waste dumping, the company should be fined, the officers that approved / failed to curtail it should be liable, and shareholders should also be penalized... calculating proportions of the cleanup and penalties to assign based on corporate valuation, officers' salaries, and shareholders' stock values.

No doubt the process could get messy but everyone in that chain deserves a share of the blame, for having polluted, and for incentivizing it.

I can see a future where shareholders take an active auditing role in corporate operations to ensure they're not getting hung out to dry.
So what would be different between two similar countries, one with a debt:GDP ration of 0.1 and the other with a ratio of 2? Is the only difference that the first country has more options in a time of crisis?
Get rid of postinstall message (core-JS)
In Columbus, Ohio here. Last week was the first time we have had flour back on the shelves and the types were limited. Still haven't seen any yeast available.
Hah, now that's a museum with character! Quite a curious way to structure it and I love the little jokes they insert into the site. Thanking IKEA, that preview image of 'the whole museum'. It's kind of self-disparaging but I'm sure that there are at least a few thousand users on HN alone who revere old adventure games and would consider a museum cataloguing them to be a really cool and important place. It's art and part of global culture so I think this is really important, if a bit niche.
> Funny thing regarding biases in political leaning is that it's all based around context.

There is no context on which the Republican side was not comprised of communist and socialist groups supported by Stalin's Soviet Union.
Glacier hasn't really seemed like it's worth it for me and looking over this calculator it's almost as expensive as Standard mode? Why would I use it over Standard, let alone Intelligent Tiering - Infrequent Access.
A year-old laptop is just getting into the sweet spot for Linux in general and Fedora in particular. The new kernels that keep on coming into the release will help with hardware compatibility.

Debian Stable is definitely not so hot on a year-old laptop, though a newer kernel from Backports can really help.

I have a 3-year-old HP laptop and have been running Debian Stable on it for about 6 months now. It's been a fairly seamless experience, as these things go.

For newer laptops, I definitely recommend Fedora. It's the easiest way to get new kernels -- which are what you need for new hardware -- on the regular.
US Bonds are usually referred to as Treasury bonds, which the Fed buys, to manipulate the yield.
Technically there is Walmart in Dorset. Walmart owns the Asda supermarket chain and there are branches in the larger towns in Dorset.
Winnipeg Police Killed Three Indigenous People in 10 Days
Calling everything a 'story' is just another in a long line of trends that pretend making up a new name for something is progress.

(Also a user doesn't actually want to log in, they want to do something and you are making them log in)
People will downvote anything here. From facts to personal experience stories to complements, there are just people out there who downvote everything. And they'll get their friends to brigade too, just for the lulz. It's best not to worry about it, internalize it, or complain about it. They're just fake internet points after all.
And moisture. Some of the molds that can grow on flour are carcinogenic and/or extremely toxic.
Can confirm System 76 and their customer support are terrific. Yes, I paid a little more, but worth it to me.
2018 May 31 Outage no ?
Possibly but this is more to counter letting your kids go wild such that as they grow up you don't like to around them. By ining them how to behave well you equip them will the tools to interact in society.

Of course if you are a horrible person you might dislike them for their good behaviours. But if you're a horrible person chances are you'll mess up your kids with or without that rule.
I'm not sure that I follow. If a previous employer is telling callers things that are keeping you from getting a new job, then I'm not sure what that has to do with personal growth. Especially if you were fired unjustly.
When your brain is so poisoned by capitalism you think that there is nothing other than either making a big profit or virtue signalling.
Lisp is one of those languages that seamlessly merges both together, so I don't know how they could be opposites.

Having said that, I only use the OOP (defstruct et al) when coding something that would be easier that way - maintaining consistent records in a CVS file, for example. Nothing is stopping the code itself from being functional.

Maybe it could be said that some purely OOP languages might be opposites of some purely functional languages.
The interest on their debt would be 6-8% if the US Treasury yield wasn't artificially manipulated by the Fed to ~0%.

They'd be paying 3-4x that on interest. That's a decent chunk of their profits / buybacks.
Saltstack CVE10.0 [pdf]
IMHO the Agile manifesto still holds good. It applies to arguments in the article around processes (and tools) to ironically fix itself.
Fascinating. Another example of the HN community's "Assume Bad Faith" in action. If I had to come up with a list of values for this community based on popular comments, I think it's a photo finish for the top between:

* Assume Bad Faith

* Be Pessimistic
70% is "a 2m safety distance becomes some X, that isn't very easy to calculate". There's very likely an exponential fall of virus with distance, so it's probably something visibly smaller than 2m, but not by a lot.

Besides, that's hardly the only variable at play. The virus doesn't spread on the atmosphere only by dispersion, so the particles energy is relevant. It doesn't spread in only in dry particles, so that ratio is relevant, as is the efficiency in blocking the larger wet particles. And it doesn't spread only by coughing, so the efficiency on normal breathing and speaking is important too.

Also, we don't need completely effective barriers for people at the street, this is not ebola. We just need to reduce the virus spread by ~60%.

The one thing we know is that the countries where people use masks are having an easier time fighting the virus. We don't really know if it's because of the masks, but it's a good bet.
The english term darkroom is solely used in a sexual context in Germany [1]. If you read the comments coming from that perspective some really become awkwardly funny...

[1]https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkroom
clang will warn as it doesn't like int+string constructs.

&"Yes\0No"[!x>>2]; // same number of characters

to shut it up.
Though the trials of lysol injections would not start in humans, they also would not start in mice, or in yeast, or at all. It is absurd to suggest anyone look into injecting any surface disinfectants into a living creature, let alone a human, let alone during a pandemic, let alone at the White House podium on a day the US had a 9/11's worth of deaths due to the virus in a single 24-hour time period.
is this just an ad?
Particularly since it is really hard to find yeast for sale.
Newport Beach, CA here and it's been off the shelf for awhile but also recently popped back up, along with other essentials like the infamous toilet paper.
I see a lot of furious arguing and talking points about domains as "should be separate" but no real answers as to what harm it would prevent or even precedents of it ever working "the way it should". It seems more like a religious dogma at this point than anything as instead of answers or logic you just get increasingly furious repeated assertions.
Sure, but if you go down chasing portability guarantees in e.g. the C++ spec, you’re going to go insane pretty quickly.
You jest, the yellow pages online are a travesty of interface woes, but I guess I was able to enter flour and a number of companies did come up.

But I think they are missing out on listings for products, resource, or manufacturing inputs & waste connecting angle that would be really interesting. The best thing they have is maybe industry category keywords.
So for point 1, what counts as being of use in service of something else and of use directly?

Take a game and an helper for that game. The helper is clearly of use in service to the game. But is the game of use directly, or is it in service to the enjoyment of the player? The enjoyment of the player would be the only thing that is done for itself, and even that gets a little odd when you begin to strip back the neurology of what the enjoyment is.

So I see two ways to take this. First, a slight clarification to say that 'something' that a thing may be in use to is limited in a way to not include desires and pursuits.

Second, that the only thing that has the purest usefulness are desire and pursuits we seek only to fulfill them and not for other reasons (if we ignore why our brain wants us to do such).

Both seem odd but not repulsive takes.
No -- lack of Fedora LTS is because doing LTS with actual _S_ is a huge amount of work, and our volunteer community is not super-excited about doing that work.
Yet another one that didn't bother to actually read the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics
>but as a provoker of attention/reflection.

Smart business choice, this is how you capitalize on ambiguity. Sarcasm as a business model.
In Canada, there have been supply shortages but according to Robin Hood (major Canadian flour producer), the supply issues are both at the endpoint (grocery stores not stocking enough) as well as in secondary products, e.g. they cite that there's a lack of packaging, but that their flour supply is healthy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/robin-hood-flour-baking-yel...

That said regions will obviously vary. Canada is a major wheat producer.
> The problem is the almost religious following

Yes. I have found doing agile "properly" to be too rigid. What we need is something more flexible than agile.
> "most of what works in other species doesn't work in humans" (see: 99% of drug trials)

Isn't the point of doing animal trials that they are "close enough" for most things to deliver good results? I.e. "if you can't do it in mice, dogs and pigs with your proposed medication, you probably won't be able to do it in humans". They're close enough that xenotransplantation is actively considered. "Humans are so special, everything we learn about anything that isn't human does most likely not apply to humans, so don't you dare even suggest that" just sounds strange to me.
The only exception I can think of is Walmart, where they've moved to a model in many categories where they only have one competitor to their store brand.
you could create board in google docs spreadsheet and create stack of letters via script maybe browser plugin if needed.
> It's difficult to work for a FAANG and become wealthy, as in move between socioeconomic classes

You're goal should not necessarily be to move up a social-economic class, but to at least provide your children with more opportunity than you had. Inter-generational wealth accumulation is very important.

Most people don't go rags to riches, it's typically families that do so over multiple generations. With poor people focusing on educating their children, who become professionals, who then have kids with the opportunity to make it big. If you look at Bill Gates, he's the son of a judge. Zuckerberg is the son of a dentist. One of the Google founders is the son of a college professor. Even our president came from a wealthy family.
Venus is only a few weeks away from its inferior solar conjunction, which is approximately the point in its orbit (recurring about every 19 months) where it most closely approaches Earth: https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20200603_11_100

Interestingly, Venus' brightness is currently near its peak, even though the conjunction itself is still several weeks away. At the point of closest approach, the planet will be almost 3x bigger in angular area than it is today, but we will be seeing a much smaller fraction of its sunlit side.
I don't need any more so haven't made a real study but I'd note that both King Arthur and Bob's Red Mill are out of their main products online. (But they're somewhat artisan so they probably have more capacity constraints than the bigger players do.)
> until you achieve "good enough".

Or until the ever-growing pile of garbage that agile produces gets too tall and tips over. Then you throw away the codebase and start again :).
There certainly is a level of experience needed but some people are just more social than others. I know several people who started working remotely and hated it after a while. I believe there are a lot of people who would do themselves a disfavor if they started working remotely because it goes against their own needs. For others it's perfect. It's good to know where you fall on the spectrum.
Actually, it was extremely bright here even before anyone ws in lockdown. I particularly remember when it was in the western sky near the moon several moons ago.
What are your life goals? What are your interests? Only you can determine what you are passionate about, and those interests are what you should pursue.

If you want to focus on your health, then you might want to set up an exercise routine and good diet. This is useful for offsetting sitting at a desk.

If you are talking about tech, then maybe you can learn about something that interested you but that wasn't taught in college or do a deeper dive. Experiment with Pi, or create an Android app, etc.

On a personal level you can start a new hobby. Maybe start a garden, make your own soap, learn an instrument, etc.
>a homemade face mask

and that highlights the main reason of our situation - total lack of organized massive development, production and distribution of masks, tests, etc. Next - a homemade coronavirus test to be self-administered before going "out in public near other people."

The majority of the homemade stuff (until correctly made from material certified for the role) will block the large droplets, yet it wouldn't block much of the micro-droplets, the aerosol, which is what carries the virus for the distance. And once the mask gets wet one can see how it can become a machine for spreading the virus by way of your exhale aerosolizing the virus carrying moisture mass that got accumulated on the mask as result of catching of the large droplets earlier. Ever seen a bubble maker toy?
It seems so bizarre that so much flour is being consumed now. Are people hoarding it, or would this demand otherwise have been met from restaurants?
The core of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, XP, TDD, etc, is just to get a developer to truly understand what it is they're doing and make a meaningful connection to the real results of it. But before they can ever begin to do that (which is a huge challenge in and of itself), the organization needs to get the hell out of their way, but at the same time, invest tons of money and effort to help them do what they should be doing.

If you just "step back" from trying to control the average bunch of engineers, they will miserably fail, because they have never gone to a school that taught them how to rapidly drive business value through software. If you hire the right people, they already learned all of that, and so they'll be successful.

That's how the Netflixes of the world survive. Their organization and process would seem totally insane to any "average" tech engineering organization. But it works for them because they learned how to work together the correct way, the business got the hell out of the way, and it also invested a ton in helping them do what they need to do.

Agile does not give you any of that. Agile is just a promise of what should be happening, but it doesn't tell you how to get there at all. It's a pipe dream.

Agile is not the problem, though. It's businesses thinking the engineers are simple tools to be used to produce widgets, and if they just shove enough extra business roles and processes around the engineers, that will end up creating value. But the solution is actually to remove all that extra crap, and get the engineers to do everything in a way that the PMs and DMs and QEs etc are no longer necessary.
> even in most indoor situations, mask effectiveness only comes into play in very specific situations.

I think you might be underestimating how transmissible this particular virus is. If it were that hard to catch it, people wouldn't be catching it at the rate they are.
Interesting. I've got his book on my reading list, but haven't gotten to it yet.

I just made a tenuous mental connection between this concept and a Reddit phenomenon called "Lake City quiet pills". I heard about it on the podcast "Stuff They Don't Want You To Know" and it held my interest for a few hours' worth of investigation.

The short version is that a Redditor died. He was a stereotypical grumpy old dude, and someone hopped on Reddit and posted that he'd passed. Someone got interested and tied that poster to some websites, one of which had a bunch of stuff hidden in the public source. It definitely seems like a clandestine group of some kind communicating, but to who it was and to what end isn't clear. The Reddit conspiracist belief seems to be that it was a group of assassins-for-hire.

Podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/182-stuff-they-dont-want-you-...
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/LakeCityQuietPills/
I wonder: do any microarchitectures detect and redirect multiplications/divisions by powers of two to the shifter?