skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone. The potential is absolutely there, and even the devices that are available today would be groundbreaking, if only someone could figure out something to do with them.

As for that, the ecosystem is far too closed. ML and Microsoft seem to be approaching the technology Apple-style, with expensive hardware and by-the-numbers (if that) developer support, which would allow them to control the platform - and profits - once the we reach some sort of inflection point where either a unpredicted killer app emerges or the tech matures enough for the more obvious applications to be viable.

They're not going to get there, though; someone is going to (or perhaps already has) released a cheaper alternative with a low barrier-to-entry creation platform, and that will allow the number of people who have access to both a good-enough device and a good-enough skillset to reach a critical mass. They'll create for that device and platform and everyone else will be playing catch-up. It's the early PC and BASIC all over again.

Do you know what would be really interesting? If Sony's PS5 were to launch with an affordable VR headset and an updated version of Media Molecule's Dreams.
It's not really true vs false, it's a matter of deciding what level of evidence is convincing. One point is that we already know the approximate effectiveness of social distancing from many 1918 data points and its epidemic with similar contagiousness. Some places in 1918 did it and some did not, like San Francisco vs Philadelphia where the difference was stark.

Maybe the effect will be less this time for some inexplicable reason but I would not want to run the experiment in my country.
This is why the assumption that “open source code is more likely to be closely audited for vulnerabilities” is not true (even for incredibly core/important projects with a wide scope) and is potentially dangerous to rely on.
Except that Apple wouldn't have survived if their primary business was mobile devices ... VC cash or otherwise.
Haha, tell me about it. The downvoters are out in droves. Cowards.
I use the sd card for media storage. Music and podcasts. Significantly reduces monthly data usage.

My car has an aux port. It has terrible Bluetooth that cuts out every couple minutes. I also use the same headphones at my home plugged into my phone and my desktop. This could by avoided with a dongle or two (or three), but honestly, I hate dongles, so I have thus far been able to buy phones that haven't made the decision to remove a (very useful) port.
> It probably won't work very well in the US though since workers' rights are much weaker in the US than they are in Sweden.

The demographic patterns emerging from this pandemic are already showing a strong skew along lines of existing privilege or lack thereof. In the US, this revolves around the nexus of race, poverty, and lack of regular prior healthcare access which, to your point, also aligns with the kinds of workers who have fewer rights.
The article says their battery keeps 91% of initial capacity after 1,700 cycles at a rate of 2C, or 74% after 1,000 cycles at 5C, which sounds pretty reasonable given charge/discharge rates would likely be a lot lower than that in practice.
> Anyone know more of these cities, where it'd be obvious to the ancient inhabitants that it was the same city?

According to your definition if there are recognizable major natural landmarks ( "Mount Ararat", "river Hrazdan" ), then it means nothing has changed since people in the past would recognize it and be able to place themselves. So using your logic, any city near a major mountain, river, etc would be recognizable. So tokyo ( visible from Mt Fuji ) hasn't changed, manhattan hasn't changed ( hudson/east rivers ), seattle hasn't changed ( Mt Rainier ), etc.
> Your underlying assumption is a) Sweden is reporting correctly and b) won't in future find excess deaths in the community

Yes.
> people not being able to reason about exponential growth is a failure of the education system

I think it is a cultural failure, not an educational failure. Education is available, but people, both children and adults, make excuses like "when will I ever need mathematics in real life?"... [Answer: when your life depends on it]

There is, or has been, a general lack of respect and inherent laziness toward intellectual pursuits. This is especially apparent when viewing the antagonism between science and politics.
Did you mean the reverse? I.e. "If it's one CPU with carbon-neutral electricity, or three CPUs with electricity from coal, the latter is the responsible choice."

If no, then why. I can explain my confusion if needed.
Rsync.net?
Everything works well for me other than excel. It's not even close to being as capable. Of course I've never been a pro at Microsoft Word or PP either, but I'm quite well versed in Excel and the online version is a huge let down.
Thank you for your detailed answer!

But I now go to bed, dreaming of a world, where Open-Source is the standard and IP and NDA madness forgotten ..
Why Build Your Own Assets?
That's misleading. The low prices you quoted required a 2-year carrier contract.

> an unlocked, contract free iPhone 5c will be available through T-Mobile for $549 (16GB) and $649 (32GB). T-Mobile will also have the unlocked iPhone 5s for $649, $749 and $849, for 16GB, 32GB and 64GB respectively.

https://www.engadget.com/2013-09-10-iphone-5c-and-5s-go-on-p...
For desktop or server class stuff, RISC-V is still shaking out but there are attempts to make it happen on-going right now. For everything else you've got companies like Western Digital that have committed to shipping a billion[2] RISC-V processors for their own devices, and many others. [1]

Just take a look at their membership page for people funding or helping develop the processors, https://riscv.org/members-at-a-glance/

[1] https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovations/risc-v
[2] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/281891-western-digital...
I like the smell of new, well designed technologies.
Related pro tip that no one ever explained to me:

In POSIX commands (like 'find'), -P means perform this operation on the physical hierarchy. (What does that mean? Physical stuff can't be recursive. So that implies symlinks aren't dereferenced.) -L means perform it on the logical hierarchy (i.e. where links are followed), and -H (not sure what it might stand for? hard links?) behaves like -P during recursion and like -L at the top level.

Unfortunately these don't explain what happens on mount points. Turns out there's also sometimes a -x or -xdev option (on Linux at least) that means "don't go across mount points". So on a command like 'find' on Linux, you probably always want -xdev in addition to -P.
An ice is actually pretty light in some cars. Aluminum blocks save a lot of weight. In economy cars you can lift both out by hand (I wouldn't recommend it, the angles are not really what your body handle well but a normal human can do it)

Most of the weight in a car is the frame which is a lot heavier today than similar cars of 30 years ago to pass modern safety standards.

Even if there is too little weight it is best for the required components to be as light as possible. The ability to add weight where you need it for handling reasons verses where the drive train forces it to be is often important.
Not sure if you are joking, but Moloch was never part of DARPA's short lived Cyber Fast Track program. :) We do welcome contributions from everyone, and lots of different folks use Moloch. If interested join us over at https://molo.ch
Those are those who contributed code. Unfortunately, defense contract money doesn't have a tab on GitHub. Trust me, I've used palantir/tslint
Congrats Erich! One thing I'd be curious about is the ergonomics (or lack of) of explicit integer promotions and conversions for these types, as I find the current rules for implicit integer promotions a little confusing and hard to remember.

For a fun compiler bug in LLVM due to representation of arbitrary width integers, see: https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2020/04/06/off-by-two...
Ohh, I agree, I've been working on trying to make this happen for a project I worked on previously for about 4 years now. Have gotten some traction.
> we have 50% the population of Sweden, and 0.72% the deaths

After google, the percentage of elder in Swedden is like 20% and in New Zealand like 12%. If you have half of population, you would have half of elder with the same percentage, but is minor. You should have like 6 elder people by each 20 elder in Swedden.

Even if the covid would perform exactly the same in all countries and the measures taken would be exactly the same, the deathcount by million of people would be different.
And ported to DEC Alpha too! It's one of my weirdly favorite ports of NT just because of how little use I believe it ever actually got.
Brand Essentials
There might be other forms of immunity conferred as well. Antibodies provide immediate immunity even before the younglings immune system gets up and running. There's definitely some sharing of immune cells in the womb, who's to tell what else happens there with a long-term plan?
Instead of trying to use the voice of a specific individual (living or dead) it would be legally safer to offer a choice of character types. Crusty sea dog, cultured Victorian English, mid-west rural tramp, Hollywood want-to-be, etc.
As a kid I tried getting a BASIC program working on the TI994A, and poorly communicated that to the math/library/tech teacher at my school, who in a moment of disinterested frustration told me you're either born a programmer or you're not. So that settled life for me, easy enough.

And then in my late 20s I'm stuck with a program tearing through my customer records, overwriting values with empty fields and apparently at random. I was able to pull the script from the created username id that did the overwrites, and ultimately derive the flaw as being a 'match first instance by name' with no other restrictions (including overwrite protections in place for other end users, and ignoring things like same names in different states or intentional duplicates for regulatory or industry purposes).

So something didn't feel right that I was able to unravel what this script did wrong yet not be able to program it. When I found out how much the contractor made to write that sloppy POS, it was a career given.

How many fields can you say you doubled your salary with a job hop, really?
Post author here. We had to change the link to the blog due to an issue with invalid characters on Windows.

Please check out updated blog link here: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-04-16-f-you-in-4-languages...
What about a side-dish as a marketing tool, to get people interested in your main-dish.

This is the approach we are taking with my current start-up. We have a simple entry point, integrating with the apps, and wearables people currently use. But we don't like anything in the market currently for really solving the problem, so while we build out our own hardware, we're building the app, which is a side-dish, but has it's own revenue stream too.

I'm sure there are other businesses that have done this, can anyone give examples of side-dishes that turned into main-dishes?
Oculus Quest sold something like 200k units... That's small potatoes and I wouldn't classify Quest or VR as 'mainstream'.
May be its days are numbered, but MIPS still has significant presence in the low to medium end routers (Mediatek's MT72xx, Atheros AR7xxx so on).
Ah! The fabled Intel i860. I remember the massive amount of hype at its debut. It was touted as "Cray on a chip".

I got to play with an Intel iPSC supercomputer in our Physics lab (at university) that used the i860. We had a Sun box that hosted cross-compilers for it and allowed you to reserve a specific number of i860 processors for you. The number had to be a power of 2. Fun times!
My comment was about the fragility created by running organizations too lean from # of employees perspective.

I have no issue with Aborigines' life choices and don't consider them economically useless at all, so I'm not sure what that has to do with the subject.
I'd expect that better working conditions would have been a much bigger help.

These workers would like to follow the general guidelines and stay home if they have any symptoms, but they generally work hours, not salary jobs, and can't miss too much work.

If they had the flexibility and leisure a lot of the swedish middle class experience at their office jobs, being able to call in sick, then more of the care workers could have obeyed the recommendation by the health authority.

But for now it's a low-wage, high pressure sector with less than ideal working conditions.

To add to that, the same patients meet very many different caregivers during a week due to the same working conditions, and this is also not good for preventing transmission.
They don't block 100% of the air, so they can't possibly be effective.
Now learn that you're on HN, not HW.

;-)

Actually, learn to not be a slave to increasing your karma number. I know, you (and many of us) get a dopamine hit from watching it increase, but... you can make yourself a slave to your karma number. Maintain your freedom instead of succumbing to slavery. If you start feeling what I'm talking about, then maybe you need to walk away for a while.

... says the guy who teeters on the edge of being enslaved to that dopamine hit...
> it's definitely not. Just adding a `/*` at the top of a file takes a noticeable delay to update the whole text, while it's completely unnoticeable in e.g. QtCreator.

Conversely, Qt Creator is rather anemic and featureless when compared with vscode. I mean, it doesn't even support very basic features such as editing yaml or json files, it barely supports any form of refactoring at all, doesn't support any form of project other than the old hardcoded C++ support piggybacking clang, etc.

Heck, supposedly Qt Creator's main build system is cmake, and it doesn't even allow you to add files to a project without having to hand-tweak CMakeLists.txt files.

Perhaps if Qt Creator offered a fraction of the features already provided by a free text editor such as vscode then we could start to compare sub-milisecond differences in paint times. Until then, unnoticeable differences in performance coupled with far more functionalities make it a non-starter.
For sure! F = μN, so if the weight of the vehicle is too low there will be very little friction force keeping the tires from losing traction while breaking accelerating and turning. Practically speaking, it's common to load your pick-up truck with sand bags in snowy environments in order to increase the amount of weight on the back tires since some models of pick-ups don't have much weight in the back half. Personally, I have fishtailed off the road when there was nothing in the truck bed in icy weather.
Blog post author here.

I haven't tried it myself (yet), but I don't see why Wine wouldn't work from a container, if you propagate access to the display into the container, as I have done in the Dockerfiles in my post.

Here are some quick references I found that suggest this works:

* https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine

* https://blog.simos.info/how-to-run-wine-graphics-accelerated...
The entire point of this phone is that it's the iPhone 8 body. Smaller than the XR, still uses Touch ID and home button.
Sometimes. But planes being faster transportation than peak evolution (even among other species, not just humans) is not just "think tank".

Blanket declaring evolution as the victor all the time because it has had hundreds of millions of years head start is clearly not always true.
I knew a guy who used to work for a european market-making bank.
He said a major part of is job had been helping the overnight traders in New York unwind their trades when they sobered up.
Instead of a Markdown file, imagine your data is somewhere in a REST API, or many REST APIs. Gatsby (and next.js, which I vastly prefer) will query these APIs during the BUILD process to generate your static sites - and that can be slow. Imagine you have a site that list the top 1000 IMDB movies with details. To generate your static site, you need to make 1,000 REST calls to the IMDB API during build time to get the necessary data. Parallelizing and caching it makes it faster.

If it were just Markdown files you probably wouldn't need this since parsing and transforming local Markdown files it fast. But this is Javascript, so nothing is truly fast.
Ask HN: What are some other potential worldwide crises like the pandemic?
Provoked by another thread which mentioned the Carrington Event. [0]

The Carrington Event was an extreme solar storm in 1859. It's estimated that a similar event today would cause trillions in damage.

It struck me that this was a little like the Covid-19 crisis. A sudden massive worldwide economic disruptive event, rare enough that we don't prepare for it, common enough that we can shake our heads afterwards and say we should have been better prepared.

What are some other things like this? Climate change is too predictable, massive asteroid strikes are too rare. A supervolcano?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
Wuhan Traffic Report
They must go through their state's unemployment office. The CARES [0] act added $600 per week to state unemployment benefits, expanded unemployment coverage to self-employed workers[1], and extended the time you can stay on unemployment to 39 weeks.

This is more than "full wage" for people with low incomes since it's an extra $31K/yr ($15/hr) on top of existing state unemployment benefits. It won't be more for higher incomes.

It's state managed, and we definitely have a huge surge of unemployment claims to process, so your family may not have benefits yet due to the backlog of claims. Also, states may have eligibility requirements which your family members don't meet. Which category do your family members fall into?

a) Have been denied unemployment

b) Are in the queue for unemployment, but haven't gotten it yet

c) Have unemployment, but it's less than their previous income

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_Aid,_Relief,_and_E...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-stimulus-package...
JavaScriptCore keeps track of frames, even for JavaScript proper tail calls: https://webkit.org/blog/6240/ecmascript-6-proper-tail-calls-...
There will be an economic crisis if 2-3% of people lose their lives in a span of a few weeks.
This is another reason why I have a computer for specific uses. One used exclusively for gaming and nothing else, with the same for bills, random browsing, and development. It's much easier for maintenance and sanity.
Your comment reminds me of a FAQ I read years and years ago when the internet was first starting.

It was for a male enhancement product, and one of the questions was basically how large should I let this thing get? :)
The original query language for Postgres95 was QUEL.

libpq refers to PostQUEL.

Ingres became Post-Ingres which became POSTGRES which became Postgres95 which became PostgreSQL.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/history.html
This is incredibly useful, thanks! Whist it has some region information and endpoints, boto's lacking other useful information - availability zone count, hosted zones IDs for services like S3, etc. This data publicly lives in a variety of tables across their documentation, and is painful to scrape.
I do wonder what issues come from storing multiples of the same amount of energy in the same space, but I'm willing to wait and see. Anyways, beyond 400 miles or so, there's not so much value in longer range passenger EVs (obviously semi trucks for freight are a different use case). The real win if they can demonstrate this real-world will be the reduced weight or cost per mile of range.
I've been going along the learning curve with Apple Pay, who has it, what state the the phone have to be in for it to work, learning not to press the glyph the UI presents me but instead press the actual fingerprint sensor. At some places they will be putting the terminal out towards my window so our hands are coming within a foot of each other. Once the terminal was afixed to a shelf within reach of the car window. The terminal has buttons and a card slot so it can't be behind glass for chipped credit cards, but I wonder if for NFC it could be.
The simplest way to build a command line tool in Python
I don't mean the reverse, I mean that running one CPU 24 hours a day instead of 3 CPUs 8 hours a day is better, even if the 3 CPUs have carbon-neutral energy and the 1 CPU does not.

To be fair, these are artificial choices, and that's not even what lowtech was doing (they have a battery). I was responding to the post about the CDNs that stop working at night.
Money in the modern economy: an introduction [pdf]
Trains and telecommunications are auxiliary; you walk to the train station and you talk into your phone. For breastfeeding it would be akin to using technology to aid the process, e.g. breast pump, refrigeration.

Allergies are likely an example of our ever evolving physical world, within a few generations the developed world has gone from days spent toiling in the fields to the sterile existence of modern cities, moving from one air filtered compartment to the next.
This is the thing that gets me. There are plenty of people who would be willing to design around existing constraints, just because they think the tech is cool and they want to see what they can do with it.

But the cost of entry is mid-4-figures, between the hardware itself and the required development equipment. It's obvious that the people making the hardware and platform aren't a wide-enough cross-section of the public to create what business interests or consumers don't know that they want yet. They're shooting themselves in the foot, trying to maintain control over the platform.
Cool!

Is there anything I could read about that? I'm taking your word for it, I would just find that interesting.

Or do you mean "this already exists but isn't in AR goggles"? Because I can see where my phrasing was unclear, I mean this mounted in an AR HUD.
It's a pretty climaxed ecosystem of strategies and a well lubricated rabbit hole. There's no one size fits all so you'll need to do a little research and run a few trials on your self until you find a good fit.
AMD Zen 4 desktop/server CPUs will get exclusive ‘Enhanced 5nm Node’ from TSMC
I made this library for making command line tools in Python. It just uses type annotations and docstrings. Hopefully it's useful for other people. I've had fun using it.
Indeed F = μN, but also F = ma, so you don't need as much F to accelerate a lighter vehicle (that is, one with lower m).

What you're describing about your pickup is the balance of weight, not the total weight.
After having lost 2 Seagate HDs in the last year (not at the same time), I just went to Toshiba as my primary solution and the remaining Seagate HD as my backup (complementing the cloud and external backup).

Well, after some time copying files my Seagate just stopped working, hanging the whole Windows Explorer and having huge average response time . After all the SMR scandal I just discovered how SMR really worked and I must say that I felt ripped off.
Not really. CQRS adds too much complexity in many cases.
Basic observation: Weekday traffic levels still noticeably down vs 2019 average post lockdown. Weekend traffic still nearly dead.

If this is accurate, nothing about the current congestion levels and patterns appear to be “back to normal”.
As if there's any measurement you'd accept
Many people did think it was revolutionary. "Venture capitalist John Doerr predicted it would reach $1 billion in sales faster than any company in history, and that it could be bigger than the Internet." https://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-segway-technol...

And it wasn't totally insane, for the same basic reasons people think scooters, etc, could revolutionize cities.