skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given the stories I hear from pretty much everyone in my circle who's been to the US, there's a general problem with food there tasting bland, in comparison to Europe

I think that heavily depends on where your circle is eating at in both places.
It's a good thing there is a limit to nested replies, because this could go on for a really long time.
Thanks for the link. I'm actually quite familiar with that article. It's been very useful for me when designing omnistreams. You may find some of the links on the bottom of this page useful:

https://github.com/omnistreams/omnistreams-spec
"the NYC antibody study one you mention, done at shopping centers, indeed likely over-represents people going out."

The samples were done at grocery stores. Non-essential businesses are closed in New York. Most people here still have to go out to get groceries.

There is no evidence that this has led to an oversample; these are hypotheses advanced by people on reddit and HN.
I will reword GP: if your <button> onClick navigates to another URL, your button is not a button but a link.
At the risk of sounding pretentious, I very much enjoyed Herodotus' "The Histories" (Sélincourt translation). It reads like a Game of Thrones season with all its twists and turns.

(Side-note: I usually multitask a number of books and many months can pass until reading resumes. Yes, it's weird, and yes, if someone has a nice trick for this, please help, I'm running out of bookmarks)
As far as I know the state of the art is reading and writing the raw magnetic flux to/from a disk with something like this: http://softpres.org/glossary:kryoflux

This method supports more or less any platform, and images can be made with copy protection in place (for emulators that support it), or copies to new disk media preserving the original copy protection.
Suggested title:

Thousand-Year-Old Mill Producing Flour for First Time in 50 Years Due to Demand
I give up -- inject your bleach, UV your veins, everything's a chimp, and facts don't matter.

I will cop to being short-tempered with the sheer amount of rubbish science floating around (generally and for covid-related things specifically), and for that I apologize. Wasn't shooting for arrogant so much as "you may not know that..."
Tips for building a reliable automation platform
This technique was recently done by some redditors to uncover that the multi-state COVID reopen protest is being pushed by some guy who uses an antique shop in FL as a front for his shell LLCs.

They are the websites that are being used on the facebook pages that are primarily pushing 'reopen' content, and the GA accounts on those pages links them to a bunch of pro-firearm shell corps as well.

Here's the thread. It got deleted since it was deemed as doxxing (a reddit no-no) even though Whois data is public:

http://removeddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_ca...
It's ridiculous to me that the assumption would ever be that a company would not exploit data it has. Oh, there's clearly a market for this product, we know its price, and we know all of the competitors' pricing?

It could be an argument that you should not be able to operate as a marketplace and a producer of the goods your marketplace enables buying and selling of, but this would mess with a lot of things - particularly in tech.
You're welcome!

I don't think the answer is supposed to be "Nope". I don't think you are supposed to answer the question posed by headline. I think it's one of those articles where thinking through the question is more valuable than the answer. Makes me appreciate what my favorite restaurants have meant to me, and what role they play in life, and how they are changing.
Maybe an employee stole airpods and shipped the evidence out of the warehouse?
Did. That product, and its successor, are discontinued.
Misleading Metrics and Covid-19 Data
I don't need one, but I want one. Knowing my dad he still has all of the software from our Amstrad 1640 stashed in the garage!
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This acts as a controller that attaches to a conventional PC floppy disk drive (which does not have internal controller electronics like a modern hard drive).

It's different than a USB floppy disk drive, which is more like a weird integrated ATAPI device on a USB-ATAPI bridge
This is cool - good resource for devs especially given this 'conomy
Few of those are in the same market as Amazon. It's not strictly about market share but dominance, however a market share of 50% defaults to a judgement of dominant. Amazon is projected to attain that 50% share in retail e-commerce in 2021. They're currently at about 47-49%. Amazon is exactly a monopoly and people know it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/788109/amazon-retail-mar...
Pros

- Depending on at-home situation, you may be able to focus on work more

- Time flexibility. You have the luxury of doing errands / tasks at home

Cons

- Difficult to build deeper connections with co-workers. Unless there are other processes in place, I've noticed that communication becomes increasingly work-related and less about just catching up

- Accessibility to distractions. It's easier to get distracted when you have access to TV, books, video games, etc...

- Separation of work and leisure time. Physically leaving the office used to be a forcing function to stop working. Now, it can be easy to just keep working.

- Collaboration becomes more difficult. Your coworker may have stepped away from their desk and you're kind of left hanging until they get back.
ELKS: Linux-like OS for 8086 family
Asia’s richest blockchain fan just won a deal with Facebook
News at 11 - someone learned strength reduction exists, which have been in use for the past 4 decades.
Yes, at least in Austin. The protest were led by Alex Jones who pushes prepper gear and related lifestyle products yet they broke after 4 weeks.
People seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what antitrust enforcement in the US entails. The DOJ isn’t limited to bringing actions only against monopolies. The Sherman Act also prohibits conduct that attempts to monopolize a market.
There's another, not in the C++ language but in the C++ standard library, called bit_cast: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/bit_cast

It essentially just calls memcpy after some basic checking. It's similar to reinterpret_cast in spirit but more powerful. You can convert for example a float array into a char array (I don't think any of the four standard casts will allow you to convert a whole array at a time). Compilers like clang will generally recognize memcpy as __builtin_memcpy which sometimes generates no instructions at all.
>> We need ~hundreds of thousands of contact-tracers. If that were our only need, we could offer $1,000,000 to everyone who works as a contact tracer and have money left over.

But it isn't. $350 billion in PPP funds ran out in 10 days and only covered maybe 5-7% of businesses. $500 billion was just authorized by Congress and will run out in the same amount of time and maybe cover 10% of businesses.

Not even 20% of SMBs who need money due to the economic shutdown have received it - and this money only carries them across the finish line in a few months.

We're talking about double digit trillions of dollars to float the economy into Q3, much less the healthcare system. This is either impractical (my opinion) or we lack the political will to do it, but in either case, it is super unlikely to happen.
Hah, you are correct. I even had access to numpy and still managed to get this wrong.
I don't think the US has a history of confining them to villages though...
Surely this will begin a criminal investigation into the richest man in the world, the US being a country with equal application of the laws to all.

People in sports that compete at a high level are shamed and ridiculed for being unsporting. There is no honor in winning at all costs; glory only comes from winning a fair fight. Not so when it comes to business pursuits! Many of the largest companies actively engage in anticompetetive behaviors, trying to engineer the most unfair fight possible, as if their additional billions are at that point in any way an accolade or achievement. Is it simple unrestrained greed and lust for power that makes them seek an unfair fight? This isn't rhetoric, I'm actually asking this question and would like answers.

This is a mentality and mindset that I think I may never understand.

Why cheat when you can compete directly, and actually be proud of your accomplishments?
How many miles does your Philosophy Minor have on it? I've heard they're not very reliable
Ok, perhaps the titles are different per company, but the point still stands that the referral has to land on the desk of the right person in the right position. Doesn’t change a thing about what I wrote.
Haha, this was hilarious to read, mainly because, on some occasions, I've been a cowboy, at least in the context of this post. I like to think it worked pretty well, since, for what we were trying to do, the processes were fighting against us, so I just... did what I considered right technically, regardless of tickets and sprints and who's team should do what.

Whether it was right, I'm not sure, but people have been happy with my work, so that allowed me a bit of leeway.
A game engine is really just a set of libraries. And making good libraries that compose well and are at a useful abstraction level takes taste, which comes from experience.

So code more! Could be hacking on games, could be doing other programming. But once that software design muscle is big enough making an engine will seem more obvious than ever.
That was not a practical policy recommendation.
This would be a major game changer. Fedora does things the right way Linux support wise (not relying on proprietary drivers). Combined with the high build quality of a thinkpad, this may become the go-to developer laptop.
So much flour will sit in people’s pantry and go bad, never opened.
I know what everything does and what everything should be

I used to be like that, but turns out after 5 years not looking at a piece of code you don't know anything anymore (well at least I don't) and then change something only to have something else blow up because, hey, C-style casts ftw right, less typing and less caring.

The other casts at least offer some protection against that at compile-time. There's already enough loopholes in C++ that I'd rather have the least worries possible so now I just do the right thing and use the right cast. Heck I might even add a bunch of static_asserts for casts of which I know they'll only be ok if both types are the same size and layout for instance. Plus at the same time they serve as documentation of what I meant when writing he cast. Saved me a bunch of times already.
Inflation hurts the poorer the most - they don't have assets that are being priced up due to inflation, while the cost of everyday life goes up.
Had you read the article, you would have known that the question answered here was whether, and where in the process, strength reduction was actually applied.
Most of your comments in this thread have been dull and poorly-conceived strawmanning with ad hominem interlaced. If you don't see how "income of population" relates to "What citizens will spend money on," you're surely joking.

I'm going to respond to you entirely here, because I dislike responding to the same person making variations of the same comment in multiple places. Here's the important bit of your other comment:

You brought up population, GDP, average income, etc. None of these explicitly support your claim, half of them actually work against it.

Here's the entire comment, just for fairness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22970804

Note that one of these is a blatant lie; I was not the person who brought up population in this thread, and I've done nothing but point out reasons as to why it's not a perfect representation of the market.

I already admit that GDP was largely a mistake to bring up when I can make the point better and easier with average income.

Your accusation of using any "back of the napkin calculation" is similarly ridiculous. Every single number I've cited is trivially verifiable to anyone with an internet connection.

You've been repeating "Linux market share is higher in Europe!", and sure, you've given a source for that. Market-share, however, is not market-size, as I've repeatedly said in this thread. To demonstrate it in a simple fashion so you can't avoid what I'm saying anymore: 100% of a market of 10 is less than 1% of a market of 1,000,000,000. "X has a higher share of the market in Europe than it does the US!" means very little on its own.

If the market in Europe is smaller than the United States, which isn't particularly controversial (that the entirety of the PC market in the US is just slightly smaller than the entirety of it in EMEA is fairly strong evidence [1]), the US is the bigger market, regardless of how much you repeat the market-share claim.

Especially when comparing luxury markets like high-end computing gear, what the population can spend is a significant factor in how big the market is: the United States' median person & median household has more to spend than the median person & household in most countries of Europe. This is not controversial whatsoever, and is trivially verifiable. [2] [3]

[1] Gartner's quarterly reports on it for the past decade; linking ten years of them would make this comment too large, but if you search their site with the query "PC shipments", you'll get the data.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[3] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Whoa. Libra bets are getting wild.

Also - feel like this news + facebook horizon means FB is full on trying to build the matrix.
Thank you!.. I'll keep your gists in-mind if I ever come across this trackpad issue again. Thinking about it, since Fedora 30 or 29, I don't actually remember encountering this problem - I know where to come back to if I do though! Thanks again!
It's definitely not 4000 divisions per 4ns — that'd imply a terahertz computer. I think it's saying that the amortized cost of 4000 divisions is 4ns per division. Small integer division is an "easy win" for a dedicated HW path, so it doesn't surprise me that it's only a little slower than a shift-right. Variable length right shifts aren't that fast.
To cook up a connection to the two concepts (prepping and reopening cities), apply "distrust of government" and season with "individual liberties"
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> selling Agile is also a business model

Absolutely. And, having done some agile consulting long ago, I'd say it's more pernicious than that.

The people who truly want to make deep change in pursuit of deep improvement are a small segment of the market. Worse, they don't need a lot of help. In the aughts, I had a few clients who really got it after 3 months of focused work, and then they were off and running.

But a large company that only wants to talk about change and maybe make some 5% improvements if they aren't too hard? That can be milked forever. Well, I can't, because I care about results. But consultants who either don't care or don't notice? They're golden.

And I think this failure of the Agile movement has been obvious for a decade. I gave up on Agile conferences circa 2009, and wrote a long piece about this in 2011: http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
Seconding thanks for writing this. I've had a vague idea along these lines - that it's the lower bound of consequences (particularly bad ones) that determine whether something is game or work - floating around in my head for some months now. Your comment greatly clarified this for me.

So I'm in 100% agreement with you. Things are fun when you feel safe about the possibility of losing and not being harmed by it.
The majority of people are unhealthy
> 5 does not fit the definition many in anyone's book.

Well, IIRC, there's Watership Down, a literal book, but I assume you meant that figuratively.
OK, I went back and checked the transcript. It's true that the president didn't say the word "bleach". It's not true that "nobody" did. Trump was riffing off of a report that had just been given by Bill Bryan, listing out some anticeptic testing in an in vitro context.

Bleach was, in fact, the first disinfectant in his list. Then Trump stands up and says we should investigate injecting those into the body.

I really don't think this it's applying a whole lot of spin to argue that Trump was saying we should inject the stuff the guy he was referring to had listed.
Contact tracing is about asking the patient where they have been in the last few weeks, identifying (tracing) every person they've been in contact with during that time, finding out where and how they caught the virus (ie the specific person they caught it from), and also finding and immediately quarantining everyone the patient has had contact with. It's not a process that necessarily needs PPE, more the ability to go through someone's Google Location History data and make lots of phone calls to people.

Australia is even introducing an open source app next week (like Singapore has) to automatically collect Bluetooth IDs of nearby devices as a person walks outdoors, so people can be more easily traced & notified / quarantined if they've been in contact with someone who has been infected.

Here's one of our Australian state government's explanation of contact tracing, in this case for Tuberculosis:

https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/Contact-tracing...

(Edit: and here's some info about the Australian and Singaporean contact tracing apps, if you haven't heard of them before)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/australias-cor...
I responded to this elsewhere in the thread to avoid having to make a dozen comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22971567
It's not about being poor. If I already have two desktops and a laptop, why should I buy another laptop every year?

Just compare European washing machines vs USA washing machines: European models use less water and clean better because of the hot water, USA models waste water, are noisy, and finish much faster.

Or oversized gas guzzling SUVs vs European cars.

It's about not being wasteful.
Presumably it depends on the virus, but tissues of the respiratory tract, from the nose/mouth all the way down to the lungs, have many of the same receptors. Typically a cold or flu virus infects the surface tissues in your nasal passages and then replicates its way down into your lungs, assuming it cares to reach that far.

At least, that's how someone who researched rhinoviruses once explained it to me many years ago, but probably using more accurate terminology.

Also, AFAIU, these viruses have also evolved other exploits. It's no coincidence that cold viruses induce sneezing and other sinus irritations; the viral fragments themselves have evolved to trigger this behavior, which is why it can happen after a live infection is gone--your tissues are still shedding viral fragments.
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Fun fact: the word "shard" in this context was coined by the dev team of the first major commercial MMO, Ultima Online, as an in-universe explanation for why the game world was split into multiple servers.

If you're looking for an exemplary server architecture for MMOs, look no further than UO. That game came out in 1997 and supported worlds with thousands of players and millions of persistent objects. Players could build their own houses within the game world, decorate (and later design) them to an incredible degree [1], and have other players visit (welcome or not). Players could run their own shops within their homes and sell their own hand-crafted, signed goods (weapons, armour, clothing, furniture) in addition to any found treasure they wanted to offer.

What made UO so impressive, technically, was how they accomplished all of this on such modest hardware as was available in 1995 [2]. This second link is to the GDC postmortem of the game. If you're interested, I recommend you check it out. It may not answer all your technical questions but it's extremely interesting nonetheless. The story of how they had to shard the game is part of the talk.

I'm pretty sure they did not use any off-the-shelf databases as the performance would have been terrible at the time. Everything would have been custom. The custom networking protocol is extremely reserved (not chatty), since it was designed for dial-up modems. Even when you run the game on modern hardware with broadband, the game uses on the order of a few megabytes per day of traffic.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=uo+house+decoration&t=osx&iax=imag...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnsDi7Sxq0
His description of trench warfare is powerful and horrifying. He had my heart racing when describing going over the top and chasing someone down a trench with a bayonet.
The co-processor was for floating point operations. Integer MUL and DIV were in the 386 (and the 8086/8088)
> The chance of something being pitched is correlated more strongly with it making money than with it actually being a sane idea.

More generally, it's correlated to it bringing some real or perceived advantage to the person doing the talk.

I mean, have you been watching the news lately?
Google analytics ID's are tied to the account that created them.

Presumably the FBI doesn't all share just one massive "fbi@gmail.com" email address.

Even if a bunch of FBI employees decided foolishly to use google analytics on their honeypot sites, one would expect them to all separately sign up using different google accounts - either using their real email addresses, or hopefully throwaway ones.
I think this might be a better fit for archiving software?
As an ML engineer working in Python, I keep running into a problem:

If parameters are defined close to usage, and strongly typed, then it's hard to cleanly search for good configurations of the parameters. Especially for fancier search strategies, you want all parameter lookups to go through a single file.

On the other hand, there's a lot of code churn until an ML pipeline is finished. And errors from typos and type violations will often only show up after hours of training. So it's also painful to try to keep a separate, loosely-typed parameter file in sync.

So far, my compromise is to:

(1) on a first pass, define all parameters as global variables at the top of the files they are used in

(2) once mostly code-complete, pull them into a separate file that tracks initial values, current values, and search ranges. Make all usages go through a lookup where the key is an enum, but the value is untyped:

def param(name: ParamName) -> Any:
return params[name].current_value

Which is not ideal. Does anyone else keep running into this problem and have a better solution?
Perhaps it's this

https://www.amazon.com/Works-Famous-Little-Makes-Dreams-eboo...

It Works: The Famous Little Red Book That Makes Your Dreams Come True by RHJ
I’ll try to dig up some sources later today. But briefly, on second thought “under 30” was sloppy of me to say and so that statement is probably false. I would expect for those 25-30 years old they should fall outside the range where Influenza kills a lot. So I think the order of magnitude is almost certainly true for those under 18, but I am now doubting it holds all the way up to age 30.
Absolutely. To my mind, the one vital agile practice is the weekly retrospective where the team looks at how things went, thinks a bit, and decides to try something in following weeks. Everything else is just tools people can try applying to solve the problem of the week.
Where, specifically, do they say that masks are ineffective?
> Last question, is meiosis and mitosis the only two way to reproduce?

GP answer is a valid example?