skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience in Australia was similar: always the ’s’ for Australian/British English, with the ‘z’ for American English. Well before spellcheckers, save for the teacher or parent who would spell-check your work and catch every organization and specialized, and correct your alphabet song to finish with ‘zed’ and never ‘zee’. :)
Indeed, red light therapy is very versatile. It increases the rate of stem cell maturation, helps cell to de-stress (by pushing out nitric oxide), increases energy production (by stimulating cytochrome-c-oxidase), and on top of that has systemic effects, too - the nitric oxide kills some pathogens and vasodilates (lowering high blood pressure), and, depending on where you shine the light, e.g. hormone production is increased. Those are all subtle improvements, but they add up.
‘You just don’t understand football, Marge.’
As long as you follow knownfolderid nothing has changed since Vista, or CSIDL constants go even further back.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/patricka/wher...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/csidl

.NET has its own set which is also very old and goes back to .NET 1.0 (as old as Win98) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.environme...
That sounds like a terrible decision
> Why not just send in your GPA and let a computer check which school you can go to based on your preference? Why resort to low-key racism?

College admissions were based that way. And it disproportionately benefited white students, and affirmative action policies were implemented to combat that.

Think of Affirmative Action similar to weighted GPA's.

College Admissions attempted to take a population and normalize them to a pair of datapoints (GPA/SAT/ACT). Affirmative action policies attempted to weigh lower scores higher, factoring in historical biases.

A (white) friend explained it like this: Think of playing a game of monopoly and if you're white you start with 2x the money, and given 1/4 of the properties on the board. If you're black, you start with 1/2 the money, and the all prices are doubled. How likely is it for a black person to win?
What the hell kind of pathological justification is that? We are taking the absolution of institutions so far now days. Everything is absolved as ‘makes business sense’.
I don't know, maybe Kevin was a real whistling virtuoso.

Raymond Chen could scream the 300 baud carrier tone: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20111111-00/?p=91...
Ahh Gentoo :) I once build-from-source think it was called stage-1 install on a SBC(Single Board Computer) 486DX. I compiled well over 4 days :D
Though the social results will be fascinating... I'm sure there are researchers salivating over this opportunity.
> Compared to slavery, the holocaust, having your land stolen away from you, and a fleeing refuge from war and poverty, these are small potatoes.

Fleeing refuge from war and poverty are literally the circumstances from which Chinese have arrived in the US for centuries (not to mention the more obvious groups like Vietnamese and Cambodian). Modern China has only been wealthy for a very short time, shorter than affirmative action policies in the US (I'm not trying to argue for or against AA, just want to point out the timeline).

Look, I'm not going to say Chinese suffered more during their great famine than Jews in the Holocaust. But I'm also not going to say the opposite. Everybody has suffered here, enough so that these events are burned into the consciousness of both groups. If you can only see the visual story of one of these, it's not because the other one doesn't exist, it's because you haven't sought it out.
> implore the chancellor to revive a “cash-for-clunkers” scheme like the one introduced after the financial crisis.

A modified "Cash for Clunkers" revival sounds pretty smart. My family's driving has plummeted, and now we have an extra car which we never drive. Meanwhile there's (I presume?) increased interest in the car-based gig economy. If someone were to want my 18 year old rust bucket (runs great!), I'd off it for cheap, since the insurance, registration, and its physical form are all deadweight. Then I'd buy a new car once the economy begins to recover. Why not make this dynamic part of the automaker bailout?
Of course there is one truth. We may not know it now or ever, and might be really nuanced. That doesn't excuse the institutions we ask to guard our health from dispensing obvious misinformation. The WHO and CDC are lying for different reasons about masks. The WHO downplayed the virus against evidence in January when it should have been letting the world know of the threat. This virus is mild compared to what will (probably) eventually happen.
Ask HN: How much coffee do you drink as a programmer?
After resisting for years buying a coffee machine, I finally got one. At work I'm drinking 2-3 a day but staying at home all the time seems to make me drink more.
How much do you drink? What's your normal intake?
It must be Prof. Mark Liberman.
I used to be in favor of double-spacing but then learned it was because of monospaced fonts. So now I only do it when my output is in monospaced fonts.
I own a brewery and distillery. All of our beer is refrigerated to keep it fresh.
That seems like a bad idea. Many people will die without any alcohol. Forcing people inside and then stopping the sales of cigarettes seems like it would create more agression in the short term.
Quotes from the article:

“It’s easy to fall into dystopian visions of the future — a world shut down by one virus after another”

“It doesn’t have to be that way. ..... Ubiquitous screening is the key.”

The approach is interesting and the possibility of eliminating large scale spread of covid, flu and others is attractive.

However the idea of requiring a saliva swab from every visitor to an office or event has the potential to create an equally terrifying dystopian future where those samples are used to collect and use other data (DNA for example).

How long before screening companies offers to provide free screening and access control systems in return for anonymised data?

This kind of solution needs to have very well thought out privacy rules supported by strong and enforceable legislation to protect the individuals rights.
Got rejected in the paper round (and Zurich and Dublin)
The project page has a video comparison against previous state of the art. You can't just subtract the background if it's not 100% static and stable. Further, the novelty seems to be less artifacts, especially around hair and eyeglasses.
> Need to work on this.

For what possible reason? During normal times there would be no reason to maintain beer stockpiles. During "challenging" times, those who would benefit from a long life supply of alcohol should look at wine, spirits etc.

Or they can get used to stale beer.

Or they can learn to homebrew.
I remember reading the TeXbook and learning that the space after a period is wider if there's a capital afterwards and the various ways of suppressing this behavior.

So it's a TeX thing, not LaTeX.
“Ubiquitous daily screening” has this William Gibsonesque edge to it.

Add the idea that anyone who has already had it gets a pass and it sounds worse.
Having learned to type on a typewriter in the early 90s (yet another way to date myself) for a long time I used two spaces in word processing and emails etc, and then switched to one as it seemed the popular convention. At some point my brain made the switch to what it considers "normal". It's been so long, I can't remember when that happened.
No. The commentors purposefully reverse the causal relationship present here. The short comings in the political and social system CAUSE the stuff that you feel so strongly about. Amazon has been around for 25 years. They may have benefitted from the destruction of any social safety net - but they are not the reason for the current situation. In fact, they are paying above minimal wage, in fact they were offering paid leaves before other companies did.

I get you hate them and take any opportunity for bashing. But that doesn’t mean that cause and effect relationships should be arbitrarily reversed, should it?
It's easy to forget that computers exist to serve humans, and not the other way around.
Testing for criminality by proxy of narcotic abuse, at the start of employment, would sound odd if it didn’t so obviously resemble a power play.

I’ve never had one though: what’s the positive story for having urine testing at work?

Jobs where you need a real test for criminality (e.g. working with children) outsource crime detection to the government of course. FBI Criminal Justice Information Service et al.

Fork lift drivers (even the electric ones \wink) get breathalyzed before a shift.

Those seem like the grown up, non-theatre approaches.
I really wish that there were spell checkers that offered en-GB-oxendict.
> Contact tracing' Korea style is the only proven option on the table.

That only works if, like Korea and Taiwan, it is done from
the beginning.

We now know that the virus was in the US and moving through the population since Feb and Jan, i.e. the US has inadvertently been on the "herd immunity" path.

It is also the case that the US is geographically diverse with very different infection patterns across regions and clusters. Hence the federal plan is for states to make local decisions.
Complete lockdown implies very less movement of populace implies less cross transmission implies less Covid 19 patients implies less deaths due to Covid and otherwise. Not rocket science I presume..
Strange, I learned double spacing in school in 1991 and have somehow gone my whole life until today without knowing or noticing that single spacing was even a thing.
Dear imgui looks very cool (I had missed that one), and like nuklear, a strong candidate for very customized look and feel - but I think it glosses over things much like nuklear does, by showing what seems to be small/simple samples, and prefixing it with a statement such as "after it's set up" (and it doesn't bother to show the other 1000 lines said setup required).

But you are spot-on that this is more showcasing the joining of various other things out there, rather than anything innovative (although I do plan to add more and extend the existing convenience wrappers, such as wrapping the IUP calls in a hiccup-like DSL using Janet macros).
https://github.com/tinspin/fuse
American culture has a long history of having an anti-intellectual streak. A football player seen as a hero, while a boy good at math is seen as a "nerd". It's the problem of bad neighborhoods, where the most popular kids in schools have the biggest fists, and who encourage or even force kids more interested in learning to "not be dorks", thus keeping them in the trap of poverty.

There are many reasons why this dynamic could arise. The problem is that it's not entirely gone even now, after like 50 years of "nerds" in engineering and finance having some of the most enviable career paths.

Facing it should be especially hard for Asian kids, as it used to be for Jewish kids in Europe: a different parenting culture helps them achieve more earlier, and actually like studying.
I'm sorry to say this, but, this is not so very good.
Having worked with other decision methods such as TOPSIS, AHP, and ANP, and note that those are the simplest and most commented on (and not about its features, but about its shortcomings), in your analysis/software, it is impossible to compare choices among them, which is a huge hindrance to the method.
Ask HN: In the case of iOS development which framework are people going towards?
I'm working on an open-source, cross-platform Distributed database[1] and wanted some opinion on which framework should we support for iOS development.

Choose from the following options & comment in the thread.

A. Swift/Objective C

B. React Native

C. Flutter

D. Any other options? Comment below.

[1]: https://github.com/dappkit/aviondb
Those people can choose another DE with legacy features like desktop icons. Tradition isn't a reason to keep up bad habits and I'm thankful to Gnome for daring to take tough decisions for the greater good.

I wouldn't use any other DE, at this point.KDE has always been cluttered and XFCE is buggy and not particularly intuitive.
I recently tried working on this with OpenCV but it didn't quite work like I expected. I had problems with artifacts caused by my own shadows
Do you also press space twice after a period in Java-ish languages?
GPA sorting hat blames the individual for not recognizing and overcoming institutionalized racism by the time they hit puberty.

It's needed precisely we reject the idea of using money to combat equality directly, as we all know poor people would just spend it on booze.
I don’t really have a dog in the fight of if Trump is a racist or not, but your logic seems to be based on two false premises.

First Trump was not elected by a population majority, so one can’t use that as evidence for his racism being supported by others. Additionally, view that Trump is racist is mostly supported by Democrats and not Republicans.

Secondly, one can be racist without defining it in ways that harm black people. For instance, one can merely be anti Latino, or anti Polish, or anti Asian. Trump may merely hate traditional white supremcists as they would be against his children and wife, for their Eastern European ancestors.

Historically you can find many examples of this. Such as during the 1800s, some would think that native Americans were a noble people, but blacks mere savages or vice versa.
I am not referring to the tweet that you think that I am referring to.
(plus there was plenty of evidence for said X but this is irrelevant for the discussion)

For the next time I would suggest to confirm if you haven't misunderstood something before hurrying to insult the one that you are talking to.
speaking as a technician for a midwestern chain of diesel truck shops, nooooo they do not.

>Most carmakers were fitter going into this crisis than the last recession a decade ago.

The article fails to mention that as a term for accepting loans during the last "once in a lifetime" financial crisis, automakers were held by the scruff of their neck and forced to eat their spinach. Pontiac was shuttered because politicians fondly remembered Buick and the Aztek was a design that pissed off basically anyone over 30. Fiat bought Chrysler, and the same mid level managers who were chortling over the theft of the E-Class design during the ripoff partnership with Mercedes were now finishing cafeteria crow pie and packing their desks.

>Credit Suisse, a bank, expects GM and Ford to burn through $10bn and $14bn of cash

Someone needs to check the ford offices for a gas leak, because they brought this entirely on themselves by wiping out automobiles in favour of SUV's and muscle cars. They turned the 'Stang into an electric crossover and got rid of the focus ST to be replaced with the ecosport, the most sterile compromise since Obamacare. Meanwhile GM is stuck trying to figure out what to do with Buick, a car thats remained the automotive equivalent of a knock-off rolex for over forty years. by comparison, Ford dropped their mercury brand in 2011 and so are spared the absolute nightmare of marketing this car without a buyer.

Americans --the majority of them-- want cheap cars that are inexpensive to maintain and reliable to own. full stop. Capitalism says otherwise and auto loans are a 1.1 trillion dollar bubble, with an average lending period of six years. Im frankly shocked no one is talking about an impending collapse of auto lending.
Yeah... I wouldn't listen to GP, because being Asian-American is not a disadvantage, and gaming the system is bad advice. As someone who is Asian and went to a predominantly Asian high school, I saw tons of my schoolmates succeed in getting admitted to great colleges. College applications, like job applications, are really all about how you present yourself and how you tell your story. If you have a strong essay, you have a good chance at convincing an admissions officer to let you in.

My advice to you would be to:

a) Talk to a counselor about your essay. My fiancee worked at a SAT prep school and she helped tons of people get into Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Ivy League schools. Your essay matters a lot. It's the only thing that shows you're more than a statistic, and gives you a chance to show off your passions. Having someone look at this helps a lot.

b) Apply to as many schools as you can. Don't fixate on individual schools, try to get as many opportunities as you can. College admissions, like job applications, are mostly a numbers game, so the more place you apply to, the higher your chances you'll get into something you like.

c) Don't be too disappointed if you don't get into your first choice. In the end, college is really more about what you make of it, rather than the pedigree of the school itself. I've worked with tons of great engineers with degrees from top universities and small community college alike. College pedigree doesn't determine your success, hard work and discipline do. Having a passion for CS is great too.

Good luck! Don't give up hope, I'm sure you'll get into a good school.
Peripheral: What is the benefit of halving these artificial backgrounds? Apart from „it’s fun“, which wears off after about a minute? In my experience (Zoom Meetings), there’s blurring/artefacts around the edge of the head and the image quality seems to suffer as well.

I had a meeting where one participant uses an actual green screen, and the difference was remarkable, with none of the issues above.
that also doesn't mean that if you come up with a plan that only partially works you stop working on it. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Could you protect a food processing plant with this method? Yes. Does it cover testing in LA? No. Does LA need food and other shipments? Yeah they do.
This person has a lot of fear in them. Sad. This person's third solution is a horrible authoritarian nightmare. Someone get him some help.

Worst part is he think this is perfectly sane.

"What we need is a leper colony for all the lepers so that I don't get sick. It sounds so scary to me!"
Has anybody used it enough to have become a villager? I haven't even found my village yet. I think I'm in one but it's a bit boring. I've come across a lot of cyberpunks. They don't like "SV techies" and seem to be energized by questions of personal identity. Being unapologetic is also energizing.

I'm not sure what to post because if I lived in this village IRL I think it'd feel like walking on eggshells. Building on my own website is more fun so far. However I appreciate the tips on how not to screw up my first post, should it come to that!
Archival version https://archive.fo/poekb
> I meant that people liking math or CS as a negative thing and it feeds into the stereotype of having no personality.

Which people? Perhaps you are projecting. Or, you're just looking at your peer high school students.

I can assure you no one will give you shit if you like math once you get to college. You will be surrounded by people with similar interests as you, and assuming you pursue a career in CS, you will also be surrounded by people who have passionate as that.
I cannot help but feel like "move fast and break things" is the last thing we should be advocating companies that make multi-ton metal objects that hurtle themselves around at speeds more than sufficient to kill anyone they run into, and/or the people within them, should be doing.
If my memory serves correctly, this was 2004/2005, around the time I was discovering my home burnt CDs and DVDs were going bad.

This was also around the time I would often brick my primary (only) workstation for whatever reason. Having a properly mastered Live CD was super useful.

I would order at least two with every release cycle for a few years at least.

Thankfully, I saw the light early with Ubuntu-server, and stayed with Debian. Ubuntu-desktop makes for a good enough live / recovery / troubleshooting environment, but not sure I’d use it for anything more.
I owned one too. Hopefully, your entire supply chain from brewery to consumer takes the same care you do. And that your total package oxygen numbers are low. Good luck. It’s getting rough out there.
I've heard this can cause methanol blindness and increase in black market but who knows. Soon we will learn.
An easy fix would be to require that all saliva samples are disposed of into the same container, mixing all samples of all tested persons.
See a therapist.
True, from that Autocar gallery the Xpeng's body shape looks more like a bad copy of a French car with a few incidental sprinklings of Tesla that could have been described to Xpeng's designers over a brief telephone call.

From the front it looks like a Tesla Model Y that was reproduced in balloon form—and then slightly overinflated.

The dashboard and driver display clearly too obvious liberties from the Tesla Model S, but that design is what... eight years old now? And the real value is in the software interaction design, not the coarse hardware alignment. Besides it's likely that Tesla will be doing a major refresh of the Model S/X interior within the next couple of years anyway, making the Xpeng look like a bad copy of a decidedly dated.

(I offer no opinion about IP theft.)
For the reason that beer could be like wine. If you don't like wine, I imagine beer could be a decent option to have a neat collection of
No, it’s dead comment. Turn on show dead to see it.
Persistence often uses much slower methods, one nice feature of my database is that it is distributed async. so I send all database queries to all regions which means I get backup and players can play anywhere without transferring data first.

I also use HTTP for real-time movement, you can do that if you strip all non-mandatory headers and use "Transfer-Encoding: Chunked" for the "Pull" socket. I use two sockets per client: "Push" (Client <-> Server) and "Pull" (Client <- Server).

HTTP uses TCP and that will inevitably lead you to the old TCP vs. UDP threads. My take on it is that TCP works fine for real-time action games today if you use event based protocols instead of tick based!
Wouldn't that go against their mission?
I would say there is no simple answer to your question. However, I am not able to give you an authoritative answer to your question anyway. If you are interested, you can start here[1] or try and ping the moz-security people

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox
In my experience the main reason that agile mostly sux in large enterprises is because it is agile in name only. Not a single one of the people who are responsible from managing the process have even heard of the “agile manifesto” let alone read it, nor have any of them ever worked as a software engineer. So in most cases it could easily be better than what it is.

But I object to the authors complaint “and it’s pushing women engineers into non-technical roles.” and elevating the primacy of engineering above all else.

People come in all levels of competencies and have all manner of skills. I don’t care if you are a man or a woman. I care about how good you are at doing the tasks that need to be done to get the job done. And in large companies there are big jobs that require a lot of people and a lot of coordination.

I work with a woman who is not a very good software engineer, but she is good at administering and coordinating the work among other software engineers and she quite enjoys doing those tasks.

While she can improve on some of her skills as a software engineer and I try to help her with those, the author’s recommendation seems to be that because she’s a woman, I should push her away from work that she likes doing, that she’s good at doing, and which is important work to do.

This is objectively terrible advice, but some might accuse me now of male chauvinism. If so, fine. But I will forward this article to my colleague to ask her what she thinks and I’ll let her opinion be the ruling decision.