skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JavsScript Image Manipulation Libraries for 2020
Thanks. Had not seen that acronym before.
Oh boy, here comes the AMD peanut gallery.

The conclusion of your article is precisely about how motherboard manufacturers don't obey the official/nominal behavior and how that makes it irrelevant:

> Any modern BIOS system, particularly from the major motherboard vendors, will have options to set power limits (long power limit, short power limit) and power duration. In most cases, at default settings, the user won’t know what these are set to because it will just say ‘Auto’, which is a codeword for ‘we know what we want to set it as, don’t worry about it’. The vendors will have the values stored in memory and use them, but all the user will see is ‘Auto’. This lets them set PL2 to 4096W and Tau to something very large, such as 65535, or -1 (infinity, depending on the BIOS setup). This means the CPU will run in its turbo modes all day and all week, just as long as it doesn’t hit thermal limits.

Intel desktop processors will sustain boosts for an arbitrary amount of time. Yes, they will exceed the nominal TDP while doing so, so do AMD processors (AMD's version of "PL2", which they call the "PPT limit", allows power consumption up to 30% higher than the nominal TDP while boosting, and there is no official limit to how long this state may occur).

These limits are of course observed much more strictly on laptops since power/thermal constraints actually make a real-world difference there. But overall, Ice Lake perf/watt is competitive with Renoir and its IPC and per-core performance is actually higher than Renoir. You just get fewer cores.
I think you’re totally right. In addition/corollary, it seems a lot of the things Amazon Basics sells are basically commodities. If you have a million iPad stands, eh, just buy the amazon basics one, it’s probably not crap and the reviews look good. I need my stand, my USB adapter, my cable, my whatever to just, “do the job”, there’s not a whole lot of performance differential within the category beyond works/doesn’t work. If there’s a strong quality differentiator in the product I think they’d do less well and I bet their data scientists have answered that question one way or the other.
Definitely used to be the case in Canada. The caller had to hang up: if the receiver hung up it took a (something like 20 second) timeout before the call would terminate. We did used to use that to move to another extension in our house.

Note to kids: we used to have our phones anchored to the wall with these coiled ropes so you couldn't walk away with them To counter that, we had multiple phones in various rooms of the house. They also made the phones so big the wouldn't fit in your pocket as another way to prevent stealing them. They didn't have screens because the vacuum tubes drew too much current and they would get too hot when pressed to your ear.
Have a union around those things upon which you agree. For those things upon which you don't agree, every state is a laboratory for trying out those ideas.
The point is that people often have an opinion, cite one statistic to validate their opinion, miss the bigger picture (because summarizing anything complex with a single number, rarely tells the whole story), and in the face of additional evidence stick to that one statistic that validates their original opinion. I see it happen a lot. Both on HN and elsewhere too. Presenting multiple statistics that shine a different light on the same population, enriches the conversation, and gives a more complete characterization of the population/situation/phenomena etc.

I also personally found that combined set of statistics enlightening because I previously did not realize how large the population of female veterans is, since I had only read about the percentages not the absolute numbers.
This used to be true but we are now 95%~ in Google Cloud.
"I hate the current norm for successful social media apps that make billions of dollars"

Just a reminder, HN viewpoints do not matter at all.
Why would different transmission methods result in different symptoms?
I had this experience when I was working with the Facebook Ad Manager.

They arbitrarily blocked my @domain account while my ads were running. They asked me to submit IDs and stuff but haven't heard back in 2 weeks. No other way to contact support except wait.

I am not sure what flagged my account but I wouldn't be surprised if they have significantly lowered the threshold for threat detection in an election year (especially after the scandals uncovered from 2016).

Definitely terrible from a customer experience PoV.
As someone working to launch an app, this isn't something that I was terribly concerned with handling before launch, but I now have a question.

Is the best way to handle this to allow the '+' symbol in email addresses, but verify that the underlying email address hasn't already been registered so that one email address still can't create multiple accounts?

So if you sign up with covercash+123@gmail.com, should I check the prefix ("covercash") with the domain ("gmail.com") and make sure there aren't any matches already registered like covercash@gmail.com or covercash+111@gmail.com?
Hmm, what's performance like on that? It feels like running under QEMU would be pretty slow.
> It's not gullible to read the actual articles and make your mind up about them

Of course. The thing is we obviously aren’t coming to the same conclusions and it’s hard for me to understand yours.

The same seems to go for you, but it appears that’s because you aren’t even trying to understand what I’m saying. You’re just baselessly calling my claims baseless.
ARM was well established for smartphones and handheld computers well before the HTC Dream ever existed.
Configuration is maintenance that I'd rather not do, it's not a matter of "can't". I used vim as my main editor for years, and I had it very much configured to my liking. Any time you have to set up plugins for a new language or a new environment though, it can be annoying, which is why I started using vscode as a front-end for neovim. Now I have a nice-feeling well-supported IDE with all the power of vim for editing.
If you can't see volume, you can't estimate profit, and you can't differentiate which products are worth considering as a primary seller.

Start with volume as a suggestion of which products to investigate for purchase price with sellers. If you can get the "right" price with the "appropriate" volume, start selling the product direct.

Also, at Amazon scale, you can estimate margin by looking at price variation over time and throwing in some well tested assumptions.
Yes, sorry, I meant from a buyer perspective.

As a side node: I am actually thinking of buying a tiny bankrupt travel equipment company. Friends advised against it because of "Amazon essentials". I would not sell on Amazon but it is a strong argument.

Maybe someone has some words of wisdom regarding to this.
People are grasping at straws. It's so horrendous to believe that the world will be struggling with the pandemic for 18-24 months that any plausible-sounding indication otherwise is taken as truth.

Been seeing it for three or four weeks already, ever since Elon Musk first quoted the hopeful-sounding but incorrect study stating that most of the UK had already had the disease.
Beside sharing knowledge, I was able to get my current job and freelance gigs due to my blog which is 5+ years old.
This feels like fear talking. As more data comes in, we are seeing more people with no affects. Not just mild, but nigh non existent.

It is agreed that something gives people severe cases. Severe includes death and recovered with damage. We don't seem to have data letting you know who or what would land there.
The objective isn't to eradicate the virus at this point - that ship has sailed. The goal is to catch enough cases early enough that we can direct just the exposed people to isolate so that we can keep the total patient load at a manageable level without needing to keep the economy on pause forever.
Most seniors I know have a mobile phone. How else would they be able to show off pictures of their grandkids? Also, that's how hearing aids work these days.
There's plenty of money. We just proved it by conjuring $2.2 trillion out of the air to pay for a stimulus. The problem is that things cost far too much compared to the return. When it costs billions to build five miles of subway, does it really make sense to build much subway? No.
What does Ubuntu offer over Fedora or Red Hat enterprise Linux?

I'm not saying everyone should run Gentoo, I'm just saying that there is a much more of a justification for Gentoo existing than Ubuntu.

Ubuntu just re-invents the wheel with a bunch of nonstandard stuff so Canonical can sell support see AppArmor, Snaps, Mir, Unity etc...
They’re fantastic on desktop and have been for more than a decade, once you get past a setup process which can be quite painful (although isn’t always).

But laptops are a lot trickier. You need drivers (or patches) for a lot of extra hardware (your trackpad, your battery-level-reader, the screen brightness controller, etc); you need sleep and cpu power management to work; you usually can’t just swap out the wifi card with a Mac-compatible one, etc.

It can absolutely be done, but you need to do a lot of research on compatibility beforehand. And as a result, you may discover your options aren’t really all that much better than they were in Real Mac land.

I would go for it (ie start doing research) only if there’s something specific you really want in a laptop that Apple simply doesn’t offer. A touch screen, for instance.
A big A-series chip with a lot of thermal headroom and active cooling? I can't wait. Take my money now!
Yes, recovery is not binary. Even if you recover fully you've expended some percent of your finite lifetime capacity to heal your organs. It may well have taken years off your life. That's true for other illnesses to. The flu doesn't just cost you a week of productivity.
So you might together the samples before testing?
weird that you're getting downvoted. probably for the use of the word "parasitical" which I assume some of the HN crowd deems combative or divisive. but it's just true. there's a whole pointless middleman industry whose entire purpose is to derive profit from healthcare by denying coverage and increasing premiums, which of course have real world consequences of people dying or going bankrupt.
Most people I know check their credit card, debit card, and/or bank statements once a month, if ever.

You and I are the outliers, my friend.
That's a slippery slope: is the person the seller customer, or Amazon's customer?

Their name was an example of something required to provide feedback, make amendments, or any kind of engagement that's required with that customer.

Anonymity is one of the reasons review manipulation thrives on Amazon.

Honestly I doubt it was due to GDPR/CCPA, or user privacy concerns, and more turning FBA into a pipeline of homogeneous suppliers that race to the bottom.
Well, we'll know in two weeks. Bet you it's wrong.
The purpose of the lockdown isn't to hide until the virus magically disappears, it's to flatten the curve and allow the virus to spread slowly enough that it doesn't overwhelm the healthcare system in any given place.

Maintaining a lockdown will not lower the number of people who get the virus, it will merely extend how long it takes to get there.
I ran into two issues, one in rustc-serialize broken by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/35203 (fixable by cargo update -p rustc-serialize) and one in url broken by the move to NLL on the 2015 edition. The second is an important bugfix in the language, but it still broke my build :). Not sure how I fixed it but it's now fixed as well. Additional changes were required due to openssl.

My own code has compiled just fine except for a ton of warnings (most about try! -> ? change) and the needed API updates of dependencies (2 changed lines).

Most of the effort I spent on actually updating as little as possible. If you update everything you fix all issues resolvable by updates but you also have to adjust to every API change :).
I don't see how this is legal,

Personally i don't think you should be able to run the market and compete in it at the same time.

People talk a lot about other companies but the one i'm most worried about for stamping out startups and holding the economy back is amazon.
No offense, but the difference between someone being able to invest cash in a down market and the structural imbalances that allow the billionaire class to flourish (in any market) are markedly different things.

We can both applaud people like you taking a risk AND still recognize that regulatory capture and market power concentration are stifling innovation and concentrating wealth in ways that we haven't seen in nearly a century.
I have a similar issue with setting up my eGPU with Bootcamp. Apparently the macOS bootloader messes with the setup of a ton of devices so what I have to do is plug in USB C devices before boot, then plug in my thunderbolt devices in the bottom left port at a specific point during boot, then plug in USB-A devices after login. Anything else crashes the machine.

Admittedly my use-case is niche, but I wouldn’t be surprised about similar things happening with other devices.
I disagree, see my sister comment.

Even without data on lingering deficiencies, we can speculate with confidence that it carries a cost.
Viral load, is what this typically refers to. Akin to an allergic person seeing one cat versus a room full of them.

And, of course, for some people with allergies, contact where a cat has been is enough. ;)

So... Complicated.

Edit: was corrected down thread that this is infection dose, not viral load.
China likes this.
The 2012 MacBook Pro had a 95Wh battery
Instead I was forced to buy in (with my entire life savings) or risk losing out.

Can you describe the person holding the gun to your head? I suspect there's a misalignment of perspective, exaggeration, or perhaps some missing knowledge of investment, or details are left out. But no one was forcing those with large wads of cash to go buy VOO.

...but I've been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for a crash for years!

Timing the market, the classic n00b mistake. It worked out for you...this time.
Right, and that's 100% fair as long as you have 10 or fewer players. It becomes biased in groups of more than 10.
Native JavaScript Compiler NectarJS on OpenCollective: No VM, No Bytecode, No GC
It’a a type 1 hypervisor so not bad. But, I wouldn’t do it on a laptop. You need to pass through a gpu for it to work acceptably.
> I'm working on a site

very cool idea. I suggest posting it on /r/socialistprogrammers if you need help or if you just want to spread the word :)
Unfortunately with tdameritrade halting trading on oil futures, there are fewer options for retail investors to bet on oil at the moment.
It's difficult because you don't want to use test kits on dead people.
The lesson from Crypto AG is that you have to assume that every communications provider is a CIA front. You should do things in a way where you don't have to trust anyone but yourself and your correspondent. Open source clients are thus an important moral to the Crypto AG story.
Effective Altruists are working on a variety of approaches. Pandemic prevention has been on their radar for as long as the movement has been around. Structural change is very important and it's best approached in places where there is high tractability and high neglectedness.

As for donations -- that's the low-hanging fruit. Any individual, without having to change anything about their life (other than spending a bit less on themselves) can give to cost effective charities to do a tremendous amount of good.
So, at what point can we declare the lockdown to be a harmful overreaction and start opening countries up? Will we hold anyone accountable for models which proved to be pessimistic by orders of magnitude, causing implosion of economies around the world?
Perhaps different amount of viral load
> Is food poisoning from restaurants currently a problem for you? How will mass surveillance help?

Yes it is - if health & safety and food quality are not set to a high standard (this applies to everyone BTW). Organized criminals will break all sorts of rules to make a quick buck - including selling horse meat as beef. How do you suggest the Food Standards Agency tackle this problem in the absence of a functional police force?

> What are you suggesting the state should do to/for your friends and family who’s opinions you dislike?

> Do their views mean that they are undeserving of human rights?

I have little patients for people who ignore basic scientific facts and believe the utter nonsense of so-called conspiracy theorists. It's their choice to ignore reality, and bring it on themselves to loose human rights.
I use this quote often; it's the single greatest takeaway from the New Coke story for me.
Tempest@Home – Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels
The more repetitive a topic gets, the more users flag it. 'Is down' posts are repetitive as a category to begin with, and 'X is down again' posts are repetitive along two axes. There was one of these a few hours ago, before it got flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955595

... which was likely because users regarded it as a quasidupe of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935941.

By 'quasidupe' I mean it's not strictly the same story, but the difference ('down again') isn't significant enough for the thread to be substantially different.

(The submitted title on this one was "GitHub: Here We Go Again".)
That was my though too, those thin stands may look sleek but they don't really do anything in terms of heat transfer. If anything it'd be worse since now the machine has nothing to transfer the heat to.
Earthworms aren’t the soil heroes you imagine
I couldn't find any detailed write up about their selection methods for participants, only the basics of where they found them. Without that, it is very hard to determine whether or not there's some flavor of selection bias: If it is voluntary, and they do not screen out people who report having had cold/flu symptoms, then they run the risk of attracting a disproportionate number of people who volunteer because they're curious if their prior symptoms were actually coronavirus. That would make it far from a random sample. The fact that they sampled only people actually leaving their house is also a form of selection bias: these are the people more likely to be exposed and may represent a disproportionately high infection rate as well.
So I await further information.

That said, even if it's overall 0.6%, that is still 6x higher than flu, and higher than H1N1 which had a CFR around 0.1 for areas with adequate health care. (much higher when there was not adequate care, but that is not dissimilar to Covid.)

So no matter what, no one should be walking away from this study saying "See it's no big deal! Just the Flu/Cold etc!"
But the number of deaths does not agree.
I have both a MBP and a Windows workstation hooked up to a 4k monitor, and the difference in high-DPI support is night and day.

macOS and mac apps support high-DPI essentially flawlessly. On Windows even system dialogs have blurry text, as do many third-party apps (such as Mathematica until the very latest release).
Come to Shopify.
I heard about the Dutch reach, and was just as surprised for the same reason: although I'm Dutch myself, it's not just cyclists I'm watching out for when getting out of a car, so it doesn't feel like the reason for doing the Dutch reach are specific to the Netherlands...
Oddly enough, shortly _after_ the Intel transition was announced, IBM announced a PPC970 that would fit in a laptop power envelope.

I don't think it was ever used for anything.
If you spilled water directly on the CPU, maybe.
Wouldnt that mean quartine would never work because it make sense that those younger people going outside would make those 60 olds sick regardless of the quarantine.
I'm going to try this on my Linux desktop right now. It might prove to be a good way to run Photoshop on Linux, though I'm not too hopeful...

Thanks for the tip!
Head over to: https://hn.algolia.com . Plenty of posts regarding Tesonet and Proton*.
"Personally I suspect the the Fed has undershot and we'll see net deflation over this year and the next."

And then what happens?
> average hackernews reader

> P50 request latency

I for one don't even know what P50 means.
"Alexa, make me the number one search result on Google for Bank of America."

"Alexa, confirm."
Speculation is fine. But we need data to back it. Right now, we don't. Could hypothesize that many being found with damage surviving, had damage going in. Would neatly explain why it hit them so hard.
I couldn't find any detailed write up about their selection methods for participants, only the basics of where they found them. Without that, it is very hard to determine whether or not there's some flavor of selection bias: If it is voluntary, and they do not screen out people who report having had cold/flu symptoms, then they run the risk of attracting a disproportionate number of people who volunteer because they're curious if their prior symptoms were actually coronavirus. That would make it far from a random sample. The fact that they sampled only people actually leaving their house is also a form of selection bias: these are the people more likely to be exposed and may represent a disproportionately high infection rate as well.

So I await further information.

That said, even if it's overall 0.6%, that is still 6x higher than flu, and higher than H1N1 which had a CFR around 0.1 for areas with adequate health care. (much higher when there was not adequate care, but that is not dissimilar to Covid.)

So no matter what, no one should be walking away from this study saying "See it's no big deal! Just the Flu/Cold etc!"
This is typical marketing-speak. I am becoming temporarily deaf whenever I hear it.

Read it the following way: We have a reason to do it but we don't want to tell you so instead we will tell you a little bit of righteously-sounding bullshit so that most of sheep base is satisfied. Yes, that's "sheep", because you are not our customers, our customers are those companies we sell your information and your focus to.
Can I see the laws that affect phone companies and free speech? That's an interesting observation, and does parallel Twitter/YouTube/etc, so I'd like to see the wording for it.
Oh, right; didn't realise Zen 2 ones actually existed yet.
If the NY subway is anything like London, people will be less than 6 inches apart at rush hour. I imagine that will have played a big part in the spread in both of those cities.
Upgrading from 18.04 isn't supported until July, when 20.04.1 hits. The LTS->LTS upgrade path is handled more conservatively.

If you're not on LTS, then you should upgrade every 6 months when the OS tells you a new distribution is ready, and you'll be fine.
I sometimes start to wonder how many of the people spewing these "we're ensuring you have the best experience by forcing you to use [some arbitrary, hated experience] exclusively" lines actually believe them.
There are many close-knit communities in NYC and the surrounding area where people live much more densely (i.e. large family in a single house) and congregate more often with one another than do West Coast types. Jewish communities in New York seem to be especially hit by this; not sure if this is because they did not follow social distancing guidelines, or if they're not possible to follow given unavoidable physical constraints.
I said this repeatedly in a Hackintosh thread on HN last week: I have never had a point release break Hackintosh. Especially these days with bootloader kext injection, it’s really quite rare. Whole version upgrades are another story, but you shouldn’t just install those on a whim anyway.

Also, if you’re on Hackintosh, Apple isn’t touching your bootloader!
But you shouldnt do that. Just like when we believe the death rate was 3% it seems we can't be confident in anything we've been told.