skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. based on me owning a cookie company that makes thousands of cookies a week and being plugged-in because it's my industry. I ask people. many haven't used flour they've bought yet.

There are lots of people using flour who didn't before, but lots of it is going to go to waste.
I asked because I noticed you going 6 levels deep arguing with someone else.
The last released Macs that were not 64-bit use Intel Core Solo or Intel Core Duo processors, and those haven't been able to upgrade past Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, released over a decade ago in 2009. According to Apple's definitions of "vintage" and "obsolete", this puts these Macs well into the "obsolete" category.

The upside to removing 32-bit is shrinking the size of the system, removing complexity, shrinking the testing matrix when modifying system frameworks, etc.

The writing has been on the wall for 32-bit apps for a long time, including warning users when launching a 32-bit app that it would cease working, and showing users a list of incompatible software when upgrading to Catalina. App developers were incentivized to release updates to their apps (using 64-bit toolchains that have been available since 2007 and before), and users were given warnings about upgrading if they need 32-bit compatibility.

Meanwhile, over the past decade there has been significant improvement in virtualization technologies, which allow you to run 32-bit operating systems with great performance. You can run Windows XP in a VM or WINE in a Docker container (which runs inside a Linux VM on macOS).
I have a public (within the company) github repo called "worklog" where everyone can put theirs (it's by name), one file per year.

I usually have 4-5 lines per day, where some days have 15 (rare, but there are those big days).

I don't give the report in slack, since github has track of when stuff was committed (I commit at the end of the day), if people need it, it's on github.

It's great for standups, because I usually forget what I did yesterday.
It's also great for some company tax reductions, so it's appreciated!

Last but not least, I capture breakthrougs and decisions in there, as well as learning, so I can refer to it various months later and tell people exactly what I was doing a certain date.

At some point people asked "why this wasn't already done, what were you doing in August last year"... And I was able to clearly explain what I was doing in August and why things were not prioritized.

Overall, great win!

Just to clarify, I didn't come up with this idea myself, it was suggested to me on the Eventide Slack https://eventide-project.org/#community-section
Apparently it's a common practice in engineering (should be in software engineering too!), I currently follow this log structure:
https://github.com/eventide-project/project-status/blob/mast...
It's better than 19.04 was. :-)

20.04 should be better still (I've yet to upgrade).
"I can point you to the science on this if you're in doubt. ... Most of what we know about masks came from research in the early 2000's after SARS."

Yes please. I'll be pretty grumpy if my care providers were misinformed or worse.

"The answer is simple some filtration is better than no filtration."

For 30 minutes. The concern has always been that laypersons wouldn't understand the limitations and risks.

"What else is in your top 10."

You just wrote that govt didn't stockpile enough masks.

"The WHO had already briefed world leaders on that. Why didn't they tell the public?"

Well, ya. If WHO, CDC, White House, or whomever, flat out lied, even by omission, then pile on.
I'm not addressing the extremely wise decision that a government make it financially possible for people not to spread disease. Nor disputing that the vast majority of people are willing to do this under these extreme circumstance.

I'm addressing the assumption, wrapped in theories about incentives, that everyone (strangely except any persons expounding the theory) is eager to quit work for "welfare" at the first opportunity. And, by extension, that this is why there must never be a social safety net that can keep anyone alive. Because, according to this demonstrably false theory, society would collapse.

People do not quit their jobs to receive handouts exactly because of their principles and because they are not the cynical robots that theoreticians make them out to be. Corporations may maximize wealth regardless of harm to society or others but the vast majority of natural persons don't.
As you said, you gotta die of something. If the covid rate equals the regular rate, then the US death rate would effectively double if we simply did nothing.

That’s assuming no second order effects like a shortage of medical care making things worse.
No, I mean the door to the office building, shopping mall, or other place where groups of people gather and potentially transmit the virus.
I recently hit the wall with Ubuntu too. I'll still run -server in the cloud, but each time over the last 5-7 years I did point-samples of "is Linux viable as a desktop other than ChromeOS", it was always Ubuntu/Gnome. It turns out that that was my problem all along!

I tossed Gentoo and KDE (this is not a Gentoo endorsement, it was just a "hey I wonder what Gentoo's been up to in the last dozen years since I last used it") on a spare laptop. It turns out that KDE is amazing now. It's seriously the best DE I've ever used, and I'm a Mac user! (Half of the utilities I install out of the box on a fresh macOS are built in, and the annoying stuff that used to be editing arcane files is now easy preference settings. It's actually great.)

What the hell are Ubuntu doing shipping Gnome (with the ugliest custom theme known to man, to boot)? Admittedly it was my own ignorance, for which they are not responsible, but their mindshare and bad choice tainted my whole view of the state of the art for a long time.
2d is just 3d minus the y dimention
The numbers from Wikipedia are very different, many death are due to contagious illness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...

Cardiovascular diseases 29.34%
Infectious and parasitic diseases 23.04%
Malignant neoplasms (cancers) 12.49%
Respiratory diseases 6.49%
Unintentional injuries * 6.23%
Perinatal conditions 4.32%
Digestive diseases 3.45%
Intentional injuries + 2.84%
Neuropsychiatric disorders 1.95%
Diabetes mellitus 1.73%
Diseases of the genitourinary system 1.49%

* includes car accidents
+ suicide, violence, war, etc.
Not trying to show bravado or anything, just pointing out that I and probably others feel this way; I would fight tooth and nail against pervasive, mandatory "test and release" policies on humans (and the necessary concomitant growth of the surveillance state). The second-order social and political effects of such a policy would be disastrous - orders of magnitude worse, in the long run, than the population-level health effects of this virus. People anticipating these effects would probably be prone to civil disobedience, making the logistical nightmare even worse than what you would get with a fully passive and compliant population.
You can have pretty much the same with the tar.gz package, just unpack at a location, execute the setup to create the desktop file and some symlinks and you're set, plus you're notified upon a new update, no need to use Snap for that.
A reasonable policy is to go home when the machine at the door to your office gives a positive result. Then get a more specific PCR test, and maybe come back to work. So the cost of a false positive can be one lost day.

The false positive rate of lockdowns is 100%.
I think both engineers and food service workers are generally underpaid.
Similarly, Mint is also one of the most popular distros, and its marketing, at least for a long time, has been that it's even more user-friendly than Ubuntu.
Oh man that brings me back!
Yes. You’re up against deeply seated belief systems.
How a Random Guy Made the #2 Movie in America for $1k
Sure thing! I'm caveating this with the fact that I've only been in the area for 2 years now. After I found some good groups, I haven't actively looked as often.

Meetups
- Austin is pretty heavily split between North/South of Town Lake (Lady Bird Lake). A lot of people don't "cross the line".
- North Austin has a lot more gaming groups than the South Austin region, at an estimated ratio of 3:1.
- A majority of groups meet at local game stores, but there are a few that meet at restaurants and breweries (which I prefer the vibe of).
- Most groups meet in the evenings on weekdays. I haven't seen many weekend groups, unfortunately.
- Most groups play a wide variety of modern games, so you'll always be learning new games. There are very few groups if you like the "classics" (Monopoly, Life, Sorry, Catan, etc.)
- Most groups are decently sized, with anywhere from 10-30 folks showing up on a weekly basis.

Locations
- Austin has a small, but high-quality selection of Board Game cafes. Favorites are Vigilante and Emerald Tavern.
- Austin has a lot of local game stores. One of the more heavily trafficked ones is Dragon's Lair.

Conventions
- Austin has a yearly board game convention with a great group of regulars (https://www.boardgamebash.com/)
- You're only 3 hours away from the Dallas/Fort Worth area which holds BGG.con in both the Spring and Fall (https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/BGGCON). Biggest board game convention in the US next to GenCon.
- You also have PAX South in January held in San Antonio, only 1.5 hours away.

Other Notes
- There's a really welcoming community of 20-30 folks that meets once per month to help board game designers get feedback and playtest their games. One of my favorite recent finds.
- There used to be a REALLY popular weekly meetup that was specifically for heavy games (2+ hours) that pulled in a crowd of 30-40 folks, but it got dissolved and never really had a replacement. I'm not sure what happened, but there is more of a demand for that here.
- It's an unfortunate truth that the board game hobby can sometimes cater to some...interesting characters. From my experience, there's MUCH LESS of that in Austin and everyone has been super friendly and welcoming.

I hope that helps! If you're interested in more info, feel free to reach out to me. Email is just my username@gmail.com.
Yes, he is the best I've found. This proposal is still at least an order of magnitude more testing though :) (on the order of 100 million tests/day, not 1 million tests/day)
Monkey Island Inflation
I love R. But working with 50 million rows in ram is a pain. Anyway to do it differently? I use data.table BTW, so asfactor is always false
for complicated stuff involving multiple threads and shared memory, it's good to plan it out in advance in some way. but you are right that most data can just get stack allocated

if you look at their code it's like they have no clue that the stack even exists. seriously. they heap allocate EVERYTHING
As far as having the different character stories interfere with each other in interesting ways, there's Arrested Development.
Where you get the water buffalo milk from?
"Advancement" seems a big deal.
yeah i feel you. we bake thousand of cookies a week and its been a head ache working with suppliers. same for eggs. basically anything a bakery need.
Unopened I agree with, but bad? The quality of most people's homemade baked goods is dependent on skill and equipment, not the age of their flour. There is a risk of weevils over time perhaps, but that can ruin fresh flour too.

I've baked cakes with two year old self raising flour (it's getting on for three now) and it's fine. On the foreseeable timescale of covid it's certainly not an issue. I used to buy 16kg bags from Shipton Mill which would last 3-4 months no problem.
I completely agree. I still have zero expectations in the professional context. If I couldn't handle that I would quit rather than risk the friendship.
Someone made a Seinfeld spec script about 9/11 that was good: https://twitter.com/BillyDomineau/status/760505768311304192
> (in SF, daily number of deaths is still rising)

Huh? It's more or less flat. https://covid-19.direct/county/CA/San%20Francisco?tab=peakde...

In fact probably better than flat - 2 deaths in last 7 days is lower than any 7 day period in April.
R0, the messy metric that may soon shape our lives, explained
Yeah i hadn't really looked into their c++ code when I wrote my comment. it looks like code written by someone who doesn't even know the stack exists. insane
This crisis has had an energizing effect not only on thousand year old mills but startups as well.

So there's a Michigan startup that makes... bamboo toilet paper. I don't know what kind of demand there is for bamboo toilet paper. A week after toilet paper became unavailable at any price they got a story written about them. They were having a warehouse sale where you could pick it up at the plant.

https://heybippy.com/

The next day the paper had a picture of a woman in a brand new Mercedes full to the brim. She couldn't see out of the back window, the passenger seat was full and she had some on her lap! Now apparently they're selling it as fast as they can make it as long as their bamboo supply holds.

I know someone whom I believe is an investor and I will check in with them later this summer. I am curious once the shortage is over and the supermarkets are stacked to the ceiling with Charmin will they still have a business?

Will people develop a fondness for bamboo toilet paper? If they do that founder will have the pandemic to thank.
Agile adds so much administrative overhead
But that just moves the compliance and logistics problem back one step. Who's doing this massive amount of testing? If it's the government, you'd need armies of workers spread out everywhere. If it's the owners of these buildings, who checks to ensure compliance?

Imagine trying to enforce this on every non-residential building in, say, NYC. It would be practically impossible.
Google Cloud Storage is $1.20/TB/month for single-region/archive-class
> Instead it's "fast+cheap, fast+cheap, fast+cheap"

I've seen this before. After the second iteration it becomes neither fast nor cheap.
So if I `List.of(1,2,3,4,5,6,7).stream().parallel().map(x => x * 2)` or the equivalent, that will inline a left-shift the same way it does it here? That's pretty cool.
Those are world rates, not US rates.

In the US, it’s largely the things I listed.
Most people probably have better immune systems due to constant small exposure to pathogens.

The Western practice of being overly concerned with clean surfaces and constantly wiping areas down with antiseptics means that their immune systems never get properly challenged. (Even though many 'dirty' surfaces like computer keyboards or workdesks are always considered to be'clean')

In many parts of the world, people drink and swim happily in rivers that are so bacterially contaminated that Western people would get very sick using.
Onfim is just wonderful, thank you for that! (I love the one of an adult horseman labelled "Onfim.")

At some point I should make a collection of all the kid's scribbles I've seen in archives. I remember one in the Huntington Library that was a contemporary copy of John Donne poems, written in beautiful script, but interspersed with a 4-year-olds scribbles of faces and animals via quill pen. It was hilarious.

I also love Darwin's kids drawings on the back of his "Origin of Species" manuscript: http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/darwins-children-drew-v...
Except they are used wrong and not required for agility. How many tasks per time is an observation, a hypothesis about usefulness of projection. Story points? Waste.
This gives me an idea of how they could maybe get Jerry and Larry to sign off on it...make this game about the show within the show. Then the writing could actually stray from the actual show. (Larry has more or less said the "Modern Seinfeld" Twitter sucks.)

I doubt they will sign off on it though, or will care if it disappoints people that they won't. I'm a HUGE Seinfeld (and Curb) fan, and would play the hell out of this, but having heard and read about the two comic geniuses, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
Unity was a good DE, and I have come to appreciate their design, which even today differentiates from standard GNOME. Also recall that it was made to be one DE for all: Phone, tablet, desktop. The idea was that you would have an Ubuntu phone, dock it, and use it as your PC!

And that is doable now, considering Thunderbolt. Hell, Oneplus should try to push OxygenOS to be tablet-like and this would set them apart from everyone.

Upstart was started alongside or even before systemd, if I recall correctly.
Crossover 19, released in December 2019, supports running 32-bit applications under Catalina. There was a lot of emphasis on how they would not release version 19 until this difficult problem was solved. For a discussion of why this was so hard, see, e.g., https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/jwhite/2019/12/10/ce....

I'm not sure what process is followed in migrating this capability back to the open source code base, but (as a professional software developer) I would suggest maybe this would be the time to throw $40 their way to support them?
All evidence out there indicates that continuous exposure in closed environments is what spreads the infection. Would droplets hang in the air for that long? Most likely not.

All the mask evidence is purely speculative of the style: "it has to work" - something there in front of your face, ergo the effect has to be more than zero.

Yet I will maintain that until a proper public health study it might just as well be harmful. For all we know they may cause asthma, allergies and so on. Breathing through a material cannot be good for the human body.
This is simply inaccurate, at least in the US. The percentage of women in STEM has gone up. The percentage of workers in the computer field is lower than the rest and declining.

Your premise also confuses me as I would argue software engineering is more people focused than, say, lab work.
You may have run into this bug https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/memory-run-memory-file-system-l...
Your premise was that the European market is not valuable enough to receive the same attention.

>> yet they are impossible to buy

> That's only because you're in a less valuable market

Your assumptions based on very indirect evidence of household income did nothing to support that claim. The difference should be pretty sizable. This is akin to saying "Europe has socialized medical system and free studies". While entirely true, it might or might not support the idea that people have less worries and more money for things like computers.

You stopped short of actual numbers because it "would make this comment too large". Q3/Q4 2019 Gartner estimates [0][1]:

> In the U.S., PC shipments totaled 14.8 million units in the third quarter of 2019, a 0.3% decline from the third quarter of 2018

> The EMEA PC market grew 3% in the third quarter of 2019, with shipments totaling 19.4 million units

> PC shipments in EMEA increased 3.6% year over year to 21 million units, with the fourth quarter of 2019 marking the second consecutive quarter of shipment growth as regional demand improves.

Africa and Middle East cannot account for enough of those shipments to support your claim that the growing (even if severely held back by Brexit) European market is not valuable enough to warrant attention, especially when shipments are slowing down in other regions. By the looks of it the markets are similarly sized even including Apple shipments which are not really relevant for the discussion. There is simply no data to support your claim. If the European market is not getting enough attention, its value is definitely not the reason. Feel free to keep going.

[0] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-10-1...

[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-01-1...
> a type of Docker for desktop apps

By the way, what is it with Docker that makes it hard or impossible for it to be used for this exact purpose?
I'm speaking in general, this would also include the Gnome churn a few years ago. Canonical seems to build their own thing then abandon it in favor of what the community was doing before or during the development of the Canonical thing. I'm just spitballing why that may happen.
Sounds like a setup for immutable servers, and I think I'm okay with that.

If new copies of your service don't come up cleanly, you do not power down the old ones. If old servers can't talk to the new service, you get alarm bells going off while most of the old copies are still up and running. You've also partially serialized the deployment so you get some peak shaving.

I wonder sometimes if the problem is that despite our protestations (and things like naming servers by unpronounceable names), we still think of servers running, instead of instances running. So the fact that the 20 copies of my service keep bouncing from machine to machine is at the very least a logistics issue, and possibly unsettling.
Build a Microscope Using Lego, 3D Printing, Arduinos, and a Raspberry Pi
I always thought that Microsoft's commitment to keeping old binaries running on new versions of Windows is the reason their HiDPI support is suboptimal and that if you use only apps that use the latest text-rendering API, the experience is great.

How would making the pixel grid finer exacerbate the problems with a strategy of hammering glyphs to the pixel grid?
This is a pleasant thought, but we can't even get most people to obey speed limits most days, even though it's far easier and we know it would save large numbers of lives.
Correct, Covid-19 is not as bad as smallpox. But it's still bad. Focusing on fatality rates misses the infection rate. Two diseases with the same case fatality rate can kill widely different number of people if one is more infectious than the other. We have learned that SARS-CoV-2 is way more infectious than the flu, meaning that way more people are getting it. With way more cases, we have way more deaths. (And, of course, way more strain on the medical system.)
>Yes please. I'll be pretty grumpy if my care providers were misinformed or worse.

The evidence is plain. Masks work and they save lives. This has been an unfortunate misinformation campaign that they don't. The intention was to save masks for healthcare workers but it failed at that for a number of reasons.

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44313

Also, keep in mind that whether they work at preventing the spread of corona is a very different question than whether a doctor would recommend them to an immunocompromised person in X situation. So it's hard for me to say if your doctor was wrong without knowing precisely what she said.

>For 30 minutes. The concern has always been that laypersons wouldn't understand the limitations and risks.

Masks don't stop working after 30 minutes. Laypersons don't understand the full risks inherent in using condoms, but we don't tell them not to use condoms. We do educate them.

Masks do not provide perfect protection for any length of time. But we're not trying to obtain perfect protection. We're trying to do 1% better than the alternative course of action. (Even procedure masks, by the way, do much more than 1%, which is why it's important for everyone to wear them).

>You just wrote that govt didn't stockpile enough masks.

I meant I'm curious to see which other 10 things are more important than a massive misinformation campaign about masks that will cost thousands of lives. What are the other 10?

>Well, ya. If WHO, CDC, White House, or whomever, flat out lied, even by omission, then pile on.

They did, and I am.
My understanding is that the actual features needed to provide containers are part of the Linux kernel. What LXD provides is tooling and a daemon running as root that are used to manage containers. There's no reason why these can't be part of a snap, it doesn't introduce another layer of sandboxing for the actual containers.

(That said, I would still prefer that they not be.)