skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a horrible system for news. It would put a huge amount of power in the hands of whoever is determined to be an expert.

And I don't see how it fulfills your previous claim:

> and doesn't require some nefarious government czar.

Because someone has to decide who the experts are. Peer review in science is performed by those who have a degree from a government accredited institution.
Sorta like https://www.wireshark.org/. But Moloch is a very active project, used by many, and used internally at Verizon Media. Aol is part of Verizon Media (which brought AOL and Yahoo together). Open source is very active here. ;-)

Compare also to https://enterprise.verizon.com/products/security/advanced-th... (formerly known as Protectwise), which is not open source.
Griddy in Texas is a wholesale energy provider for consumers that passes on the fees set by the Texas grid regulatory agency every 5 minutes.
And it’s really not very useful.
Chemistry, biology, botany, and geology are dead?
>Often times when the DBA tries to teach the developer it's because he's sick of getting those 3AM wake-up calls.

And if he just learned to code, he could write all the queries himself, check in his own code, and never have 3AM calls. I see no reason why a DBA couldn't manage to write queries in source, especially with some hand-holding w.r.t. source control and check-in rituals. If they are already doing too much, just hire or train more of them. DBAs are equally as smart as devs. Loop DBAs into the business requirements.

>That's a strange mindset to have. Different jobs have different technologies, and as a developer you learn how to work with them. The specialists aren't designating anything, the job you're responsible for is.

This is very push/pull about who should own what and I personally think devs are often responsible for too much. In silo'd places, make no mistake that input is gathered about who owns what. In more collaborative environments, you see the other sides willing to step in and share the responsibilities; blurred lines, but they are still there. What we've adopted is an over-reliance that a dev will just learn many things and we hope he's good enough at all of them that we don't really need deep knowledge or need to delegate work.
Today's estimate is 43,100

See: https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1252983884284821505
Ai sure, but I personally put as much stock into either of their opinions as I do Cubans, which is, about as much stock I'd give to the opinion of any other reasonably smart person. Nothing special, because it's out of their domain of expertise. Nobody is an expert on "politics" in general. Some people are experts in running campaigns. Some people are experts in Keynesian economic theory. Some people are experts in healthcare. Some are experts in getting legislation passed and in understanding the machinations of power in Congress. Some are good executives able to hold together a broad set of options and make good calls. Nobody is an expert in all aspects of "politics"
You can enjoy what you're doing.

You can like your coworkers.

At the same time, your boss(es) can be from hell.

What is or isn't a "depressing take" now mushrooms into a further discussion.
There’s always room for more cute in software.
On Earth Day, lessons from Covid-19 pandemic offer hope
> Sweden's probably opting to take less economic damage

In all the discussion so far, I haven't seen any documentation of just how much "economic damage" the various countries are taking. I suppose there is little such data at sufficiently fine granularity to compare internationally.

It's entirely plausible that Sweden's voluntary measures vs other countries' stricter approach don't make as much economic difference as many people seem to take for granted.
Entirely possible that they are just more memorable than a regular bike. But they are definitely way more popular than a Segway.
I was thinking the same. In German Moloch is mostly used for groteskly big/growing cities. But thinking about it, the "eating into nature"-theme aligns well with the biblical "eating into kids"-theme.

For me at least, because of the city-context, Moloch matches: The moloch could stand for the amount of activity in a system that is humanly insurmountable to get a better-than-superficial understanding of.
A critical iPhone and iPad bug that lurked for 8 yrs may be under active attack
Thank you for verfiying that
I think they're definitely working on something: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-glasses/

No idea when it will be a viable product in a nice enough hardware package, they're working on the ecosystem and platform in the mean time via iOS/iPadOS, but AR via those devices is a lot less compelling.

Doing this in a real way would be big if the hardware is possible, but it may be a ways out.
> they can't reject customers

This would be a huge thing in the US, where poor people cannot get bank accounts, and end up needing to use predatory paycheck cashing providers who take huge fees instead.
You’re Not Going Back to Normal Office Life for a Long, Long Time
I've edited the title to include the date.
One of the things I think that's interesting (a potential ticking time bomb) about the "forgivable small business loans", is that they have to have their payroll back to 100% and wages AT LEAST 80% by June for the money to be forgiven.

Employees can refuse to return to work for fear of the virus and still get unemployment til later than that date.

Feels like it's going to be awfully hard getting employees back to work at less than $25/hour.

A lot of businesses could be stuck with loans when they thought they were getting "free" money.
Yes. And JAAS won't die even though applets did.
Just because you saw a few exception does not mean the rule does not hold in general. Or are you saying most people don't learn with time (a corollary of your theory that age is not a big factor)?
Looks like a replacement for Dockerfiles.
Tunisia is practically Europe.
So in other words, still no positive results for Hydroxycloroquine treatment of Covid-19. Bummer.
I remember the media regurgitated the marketing for the Segway without questioning it. IIRC it was on the cover of Time or Newsweek, for example
tl;dr...

"The first lesson is that our deepest well of practical hope is in science and the people who practice it," Reif writes, citing health care workers, public health experts, and the engineers and scientists working on solutions for protective equipment, ventilators, testing, contact tracing, therapeutic drugs, and possible vaccines for Covid-19.

"Similarly, in the fight to slow and adapt to climate change, I believe we must actively build on this implicit respect for the power of science," he adds. "Science is also our best warning system — if we can force ourselves to listen."
Tharanos raised almost a billion, and look how that ended up
I don't know about that particular story, but Mark really impressed me on shark tank when he detected some scamy shit about military grade encryption.
Security by obscurity... isn't.
> We're bringing permanence to everyone. Your precious digital content is always private until you're ready to make it public

I store private data on my own hard drives, and when I want to make it public in the long-term, I upload it to Archive.org, which for now I have more confidence in than this service. The only time I see needing something like this is when I want something to be public after I die but no sooner, like a diary or secret confession or something.
I "think" I have a wise landlord.

Either way, I hope for a wise one next time around.
It’s a good point. I would argue however that reducing or eliminating intellectual property restrictions also significantly eases the difficulty in repairing and upgrading old hardware. So obsolete technology is more easily upgraded or repurposed.
counterpoint - I've done this twice and both times I ended up with a 15-20% increase in salary.
LLVM properly generates ADC code when you use __addcarry_u64 contrary to GCC[1] which generates really dumb code with setc/mov in and out of carry.
However __addcarryx_u64 which is supposed to generate ADCX and ADOX is not properly handled and only generates ADC.

For the iXYZ themselves, the carries are properly handled and it can generate mulx at least: https://github.com/herumi/mcl/blob/master/src/asm/x86-64.bmi... (from straight LLVM IR). I don't think ADCX/ADOX are possible though even in LLVM IR.

I think you are mixing with one comment on the GCC mailing list about GCC not having the adequate representation of carry and even less a representation that can separate a carry and overflow chains[2]

[1] https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/2h768y
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-help/2017-08/msg00100.html
The real crtitical issue with digital contact tracing is that, once built, the infrastructure will be quickly taken over by three-letter agencies in order to suppress any possibility of organized dissent and resistance. Which will complete the transformation of this once free society into totalitarian dystopia. Which is way more dangerous than all viruses combined.
I was talking to a hardware engineer a while back who was heavily criticizing USB-C is because of all the ways vendors can abuse it. Turns out that the USBC port on the Nintendo Switch doesn’t comply with the USB-PD standard, which caused lots of issues for users who had third party charging docks.[0] There were accusations that Nintendo did this intentionally to restrict third-party accessories.

After reading that, nothing I read about USBC surprises me. Sounds like another spec for vendors to abuse and ignore.

0: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/03/could_switchs_non-...
Naming open source projects is a challenging task. The team hears this all the time, but hey, open source is about code you can use, a community you can join to make the code better, and the pride that people around the world want to use your code. If you are on a blue-team, you'll want to look at this project. If you are making lists of names that distract attention this goes on it.
Wow, this is a great example of a rather terrible wikipedia page. Grouping it by continent. No mention of the Middle East at all (Erbil anyone?). Oceania is just a list of every major city in AUS/NZ, even listing 1913s Canberra while omitting basically every other country in the region.

Not trying to diminish the work that went into it so far, but it is a great example to always keep in mind how wikipedia works, how its content is built and to never trust it as a source in itself.
Yes? Details on what the scope of a issue is pretty damn important.
There is a dark side to this. Scientific consensus follows certain rituals and heuristics. Even if you can assume that the scientific consensus is the closest to truth you can get (this is debatable), the approach will fail in some situations.

In particular, in war-like situations where there is little published science, data is scarce, data changes fast and there are policy considerations to be made across a multitude of disparate fields - fields that can not all be quickly evaluated with the scientific method.

IMHO, as I've been saying throughout this crisis, many institutions that do well in peace-time are in a terribly dangerous situation when they follow their normal heuristics and routines today. Strong top leadership (political or otherwise) can mitigate this danger.
> And yet, you stay in your apartment, even though there are cheaper apartments.

How long until you recover the financial costs of moving given the cheaper rent?

Let's forget the stress and emotions and logistics of moving.
How about AOL PackagieWackigie?
i'm currently using it to make a board game where updates are pushed live to everyone. it's the most pleasant experience i've ever had writing a webapp.
There hasn't been an 8 hour blackout in Cape Town due to loadshedding. The longest was 4 hrs I believe. They have a plan to get this sorted out in a year and a half, in the meantime DC's will just have to rely on their power redundancy (which has to be in place anyway).
How do you come away with an inequality issue from a setup where everyone got treated at a fair price and the rich subsidized others?
That's what some universal systems already do. I was reading up on Singapore. There is a baseline of insurance for hospital stays, but it's in a ward with 6 other patients in the same room.

If you want something better (and there are tiers), you pay more. You can buy insurance policies that pay for the more comfortable stay.
Because of the huge amount of excess deaths that get assigned as probable covid cases. This is happening right now in the UK.
Denmark has ~2.5x the per-capita covid-19 mortality of Finland, should Danish authorities be terrified that they've gotten their assumptions wrong?

The UK has ~2x the per-capita covid-19 mortality of Sweden, should English authorities be terrified that they've gotten their assumptions wrong?

You are cherry-picking like crazy!

There is clearly no evidence that stricter measures have any effect. If that was true, then there should at least be a linear correlation between strictness of measures vs. excess deaths, and that's simply not the case. You're extrapolating a linear correlation using a couple of data-points that happen to support your theory, i.e. Sweden vs other Nordic countries. Sweden vs. all of Europe paints a completely different picture, so you're not looking at that, because you're cherry-picking.

There are so many uncertainties around this whole situation, and I think the only thing we can say with certainty is that if a country has no or a low rate of excess deaths, that country is doing "ok". Not doing great, not doing shit, just doing ok.
SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites
Chrome 81, still get GIFs.
It hit a note for me too. It's a microcosm for all of the internet. On one side list of talented people doing interesting stuff, on the other some fuckin thought-leader-wanna-be shitposts to hackernews "this is bad because I don't get it" and I waste 20 mins. It's a failure of democracy
> Unreal Tournament 99 though, has plenty of servers that put some dlls for "anti-cheat" software on your computer before you join.

D:

People put up with that?
The main reaction to the Segway unveiling was “huh? This is what you were prattling about?”

No one except their PR interns thought it was going to revolutionize anything.
Yes!

Mental models provide context and insight to build on current efforts.

They can’t replace effort.
The product exists. Their intention was never to do vaporware or deceive anyone - Rony's a good hearted fellow - but they had too much money, so much that they thought they'd bend reality. Francis Ford Coppola famously said of producing Apocalypse Now: "We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane".
This is really what Magic Leap felt like from the inside. So much money, so many famous people on board (and on the board), all these dreams of creating not new means of consuming content but all-new content and all-new use cases. Making this functional and beneficial to your everyday was not enough, Rony wanted a full on sci-fi universe right here and now.

This company could snub reality for a long time and I'm honestly surprised it lived for this long.

That said:

1. There absolutely exists a product and putting it on for the first time is a pretty exhilarating experience. Unfortunately Magic Leap failed to provide an convincing reason to put it on for the second and third time.

2. The company had very good talent. Unfortunately its management turned more awkward as you climbed the ranks - professional corporate survivors which needed to bridge reality between Rony's dreams for the next year and what's possible in the next 10 with their modest skillset.

It was a bit of Hunger Games up top.

3. AR hardware startups need money, and lots of it. I estimate Magic Leap had about 50% overhead, meaning that given better management and direction - and a bit of hindsight no doubt - it could have been done with $1bn. It's still $1bn.

4. Consumer AR will come in a minimalistic form, such as Intel's deceased Project Vaunt (ironically enough, many of its Swiss optics team were brought on to Magic Leap following its termination in Intel). Minimal, stylish, useful - not something to wow you once over but to provide day in, day out value. An Apple watch rather than an Oculus.

Source - I was there for few years, running some parts of their engineering. I don't regret a second of it.
replace "developer" with "most people"
To your last point. We do know that it helps. Corona spreads from your mouth and nose to other people’s mouse and nose. So if you cover them, you’ll protect everyone around you. It always has been mindboggling to me that people who have the flu or a child don’t put on these masks. It’s customary in a lot of other countries and protection of others should be the norm.

Back to Corona: Anecdotally in Jena where the mask order is in place since >2 , there have been no new reported cases.
Yeah, he's cool and his efforts admirable, but you can talk about people's accomplishments without essentially downplaying the role of others. Yes hes helping with covid, but he didn't go single handedly convince J&J to develop their vaccine platform that they developed years ago. He didn't convince gilead to develop remdesivir, something they developed years ago for hep c. He didn't convince moderna to work on rna vaccines. He didn't convince the fda to fast track diagnostics.
And I love how in the list of things, a cure is treated as the ultimate goal, which vaccines and therapies are on the path to. Therapies are essentially cures if they work (since currently you either cure yourself or you die, this is not a chronic infection). And a vaccine is the real end goal since that stops the disease from spreading in the first place and normalizes society again by creating herd immunity etc. Prevention > treatment
Link to the source announcement: http://www.brighsun.com/En/NewsView.asp?ID=45

The slightly different websites in different states of abandonment don't inspire confidence though.

http://brighsun.com/Index_En.asp

http://brighsuntech.com/

http://brighsunauto.com/Index_En.asp
I see myself more as the observer here. I see that there's plenty of publications of people claiming to exceed the "state of the art", as well as plenty of people claiming to have found the holy grail. But if you use their resulting AIs with real-world data, they usually fail.

For example, people were willing to declare optical flow "solved" already 5 years ago. Yet, autonomous drones still crash into wires, glass, trees, snow, water, etc., because their optical flow algorithms cannot handle these aspects of reality (which were not present in the AI training data).
I agree. I had my share of rather bad advisors. I hate to admit it, but my mom had better advice about it since it directly related to human nature. Better work won't do the trick if the right person does not know about it.
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How is that "kitchen sink"?

The list consists of CEOs of many companies from different states and senators. Since each state is impacted differently and some are in better/worse situation than others, every company's opinion matters. There are also CEOs/business people from different venues like restaurants, NBA, NFL, UFC, Disney and other parks, bars etc. I think 200 might be too low. 200 divided by 50 states is around 4 per state.
I find PCRE's rule easy enough: for a character you want to be taken literally, if it's punctuation backslash it, if it's not then don't; any unbackslashed punctuation (or backslashed non-punctuation) may be a metacharacter.

Compare to, say, POSIX or Vim[0] REs, where some punctuation characters are special with a backslash, others are special without, and I can never remember which is which.

[0] Regardless of the state of the "magic" option - the only way to get consistent behavior is to start every single RE with either \v (which works like PCRE) or \V (which works like your proposal).
we don’t yet know if this novel virus will induce long-term immunity in those affected as other related viruses do not.

https://www.immunology.org/news/bsi-open-letter-government-s...
I feel your pain on SPA's.... I feel like code velocity drops on small teams.

What about LiveView/Phoenix made the process more enjoyable - let's call it 'less painful'?
My feeling is that the students in Eastern Europe (where I'm from) and very likely the Soviet Union, are very bimodal. Some are brilliant, some barely make it. If, for whatever reasons, early in your education you find yourself in the upper hump of the distribution, then it's a virtuous cycle. If not, not.

In America, it feels to me ,there are plenty of programs to help the students who don't perform that well. Brilliant kids, outside of various gifted/talented programs, are left unchallenged. My son just qualified to an online math olympiad, and he told his teacher and peers about that (over a zoom meeting, obviously). The teacher was impressed, and commended him, but that's it. He will not give my son any more challenging problems, or give him any extra attention. If he does well in that olympiad, he'll congratulate my son once more, if not, he couldn't care less.

When I was a kid growing up, math/physics olympiads was what I was living for. Here most teachers are not even aware they exist.

Overall though, I'll go against the popular opinion, and state that I consider the school system in America (or at least in NYC) better than the one in Eastern Europe. Sure, some could point out at the ridiculous budget that schools have here ($25k per pupil in NYC [1]). But all in all, I feel my son's school experience is better than mine 35 years ago.

[1] https://nypost.com/2019/05/21/nyc-spends-double-the-national...
honestly the entire country would have been better off with just giving every adult in the US 2k a month for 6 months. Would have cost about 2.5 trillion. Country could have been safely shut down, everyone would have been able to cover their bills. When the country reopens, everyone would have money to burn which would have flowed into businesses.

Spend another 2 - 3 trillion on true small business loans / grants. Forbid stock buy backs in the future.

McConnell has also indicated he has no interest in giving states any more money for unemployment. So desperate people are going to be even more desperate soon.

What the federal government has done instead is an abomination aimed at falsely propping up share prices. We are very possibly looking at the onset of a massive depression spurred on by just plain poor crisis management at the federal level.
Another place in SEAsia where it’s single payer but while everyone (legally employed persons) people who want good treatment go to private hospitals because of expertise, availability and the ability to get private rooms.
My guess at the killer app for AR is airplane maintenance.

Imagine a physical checklist where areas get highlighted, arrows to direct you to the next step, and a little red icon that goes green when you're done.

I think this could shave real time (maybe a third?) off airframe downtime while keeping the very high accuracy requirement. That would save actual money.
My impression is that it's being attributed to the smaller international travel to Africa in the first place, and then that all stopping when the rest of the world locked down. There are some pretty wrenching predictions for how they'll go when it does start spreading, if that's correct.
A highly relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2295/
> (3) is incorrect, Gatsby initial page load times are mostly really bad.

This has not been my experience, considering all HTML is ready to go from last byte so that other than blocking CSS, rendering can begin ASAP. At this point, no JS is required to interact with the page so things are generally pretty snappy while we wait for React hydrate to kick in.
tell me, what does that have to do with my argument? nothing changes at all. and all you're doing is making a logical fallacy appealing to authority.