skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worse than that.

A significant chunk of programmers decided that for loops are evil, even for loops with a 3 lines body, and that imperative programming languages should in general become functional, because their imperative nature is actually evil.

And I also even broadly agree in theory, but in practice there are consequences, especially in languages that were not designed with a strong focus for that to begin with; or even just with a mismatching culture of most programmers using that language, etc.

So why don't people just use a functional programming language if they think that is a panacea? In most case this will yield a far better functional programming experience...

Also, we are going nowhere if we base all our practice on random soft opinion pieces. We should not blindly believe claims like "An explicit for loop is another common source of bugs" without serious evidences.
ER Doctors: “For the First Time in My Life, Going to Work Scares Me”
You are unlikely to get exposed to aerosols as a regular person, unless working with high speed and/or rotating equipment. Look up a list of aerosol generating procedures.
This is absolutely fascinating. It's right up my alley and I can't believe I haven't heard of Onfim before!

Birch bark is so darn useful, I didn't even realize it was also used as a writing surface, which makes all kinds of sense.

Thanks for sharing this.
When I got my first rtlsdr dongle I spent hours just surfing the frequencies looking for interesting signals and trying to decide them. It's a great hobby!

SDR has opened up a new frontier for me, it gives me the same excitement I got when I discovered BBSs and then the internet.

I was lucky enough to have a project come up last year that required gsm/4G and GPS simulation. I got budget to buy a bladerf and a nice SBC and built a box that could simulate a GSM, 3G/4G basestation and simulate GPS.
Do we really?

People still just click "allow" on everything. They get tired of getting questions asked, and just want the program to work, so they don't even read anything and just tap tap tap until it lets them through.

Access your files? Sure. Access your documents? Whatever. Send data off to our corporate data vacuum? Whatever, I need to see what my face will look like with an AR moustache!

Also, are you running Catan as root or something? How is it able to compromise your whole system?
NHS doctors are using Microsoft Teams to get Covid results straight to phones
What do you mean by "little-endian prefix varint"? Like this?

```
enum VarInt {
Byte(u8),
Short(u16),
Long(u32),
LongLong(u64),
}
```

I.e. one byte tag followed by the value? It's definitely an option for me but the main issue is that values under 128 now take 2 bytes instead of 1. I guess I could do something like what CBOR does and use 0-251 = literal value, 252 = u8 follows, 253 = u16 follows, 254 = u32 follows, 255 = u64 follow.
How to weather the storm and prepare for the innovation economy
Well, I recall the previous "poster child" of FOSS codecs was Ogg Vorbis which competed with MP3 and AAC just fine.

As for video research being expensive, you're right, of course. We're probably seeing much increased funding in FOSS codecs now compared to all previous decades.
Newbie question: which Amazon storage services can be used to add storage to a VPS ? Storage that would be used like a secondary disk. My VPS provider is asking way too much to my taste ($50 a year for 40Gb disk I think) when comparing with Amazon.

Is it possible at all to mount some amazon storage like I would for a block device ?
LXC (and LXD, by extension) is packaged on Arch Linux as a binary, not a snap. I'm really grateful that the packagers worked with upstream to make this possible, as I heavily utilise LXC in my workspace.
I've never actually looked at leetcode problems, can you give examples of ones that seem to be best done using mutation?
I write a worklog. Every day has an entry with what i've done on the day, including learning/decisions.

What is not captured on a ticket it's still going to appear in there.

Could this be helpful?
In practice, this can only happen in a few ways:

- development becomes a 1st-class "business" activity a la accounting, sales---not that you necessarily do it as aanger, but you're looked down on if you can't

- a culture of "ask about the internals" becomes prevalent, where anyone who bought software without knowing how it worked was looked on as an idiot

- developer coup
You can also get snap-free Kubuntu (with a great Plazma desktop)
Right, it is totally orthogonal to the climate, and is already the subject of a forever-long debate over how we ought to organize society.

You're going to have a hard time fixing the climate if you also attach with it a completely unrelated laundry list of desired left-wing policy (not even trying to knock left-wing policy).

It's functionally equivalent to adding a corporate-gender-diversity quota to the Coronavirus stimulus.
Try: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=h...
>Transplant when I was a kid. For 30+ years, I had it pounded into my head that surgical masks will not protect me. Especially if I share a space with others for longer than 30 minutes. Because exhaled water vapor saturates the mask and then air comes around the sides.

This is not exactly right. It is correct that no mask (not even an N95) provides complete protection. But surgical masks do provide significant protection. As an immunocompromised individual, I want the best protection money can buy of course. But this is different than saying that surgical masks don't protect you, which is incorrect.

>WHO, CDC, others were not "wrong". Just out of date. It takes longer than instantaneous transmission for best available science to percolate out. Especially in a noisy environment.

Well, they were wrong. Masks protect in both directions, obviously. I can point you to the science on this if you're in doubt. But a simple way to think about it is why do doctors wear surgical masks in the Covid ward when N95's are unavailable? The answer is simple some filtration is better than no filtration.

>But the hard data is still very fresh.

It's not. Most of what we know about masks came from research in the early 2000's after SARS.

>Further, none of the advice, messaging was making a distinction between masks and respirators AND many people hoarded respirators AND healthcare workers haven't gotten the N95 PPE they need.

Another common misconception. Hoarding had basically nil effect on this. I understand that governments have tried to blame hoarders for their own failure to stockpile before this happened, but it's not actually based in reality. Average people started buy masks at a higher pace in January and February which pretty much instantly cleared out any store inventory. By the way, this store inventory has basically nil impact on the availability of respirators for the millions of healthcare workers in the country. Before regular stores could be refreshed, hospitals and governments commandeered the supply chains for all quality respirators. A normal person buying a surgical mask these days has zero effect on the ability of hospital staff to get them.

>Of all the things which went sideways, the suboptimal advice on masks, now since revised, isn't even in the top 10. Dwelling on it while we're still not taking the steps to end social distancing seems premature. There will be plenty of time to apportion blame later.

What else is in your top 10. The lies about masks are very close to the top for me. The only thing worse would be the WHO loudly proclaiming there was no evidence of human to human spread when we all knew (including the WHO) that human to human spread was likely happening by then. The WHO had already briefed world leaders on that. Why didn't they tell the public?
Great document. One of many eye-openers:

"The West German government sponsors a meeting called Safety Aspects of Nuclear Reactors in Space, in Cologne. Nietrich Rex predicts that Soviet space nuclear reactors will undergo 2-3 on-orbit collisions in the next 300 years. Each will result in world-wide reentry of radioactive debris."

That's a prediction from November 1989.
I'd have to play with that alternative for a bit to give you an educated response. Thanks for pointing me toward it!
Just to clarify, and defend the old continent a bit: while it certainly originated German Idealism and its descendants all the way to post-structuralism and (gasp) “critical theory”, today of course you can find proponents of both schools (the continental/hermeneutic/postmodern and the analytic) on all continents.

And regarding the gp: most philosophy programs will have classes in informal and some even in formal logic, to Goedel’s incompleteness theorems and way beyond.
Because, counterfactually, no Jeff Bezos means no Amazon means no abuse of Amazon employees. So, to some extent, Bezos and Amazon are responsible, even if they aren't wholly responsible.
I think this falls under getting the lambda and choice of function right. Likewise more complex expressions are easy to get wrong. There are implementation details to both you need to nail. Is it better to fail in referencing the wrong variable or calling the wrong function with the wrong (but valid) input?

Which is to say if you get the implementation details wrong you’ve got the implementation wrong and notice very quickly with any halfway reasonable test.
May I ask what history you're speaking of? (also note that KeepassXC is a fork of Keepass)
The decode phase can't do that, because it runs before the input values for the instruction are available.
One of the points Chomsky makes frequently is that anarchism (at least in his view) is not opposed to any and all power structures. Legitimate ones can exist but they need to justify their existence.
Isn't it the case the most places "doing agile" don't actually involve the eventual customer in the process, just junior and higher management?
I go the whole wheat route (hard red mostly) and that keeps in a sealed container nearly forever. I have had good luck with regular flour simply by keeping it in an old glass canister set. Honey of course keeps just fine when kept out of the light and also sealed.

many people let the humidity in their homes get too high and don't transfer some baking products to more appropriate containers than the simple paper bags mass packaging uses.
> The idea is that if a coin doesn’t serve a clear purpose and isn’t fulfilling a use case that is useful to the community at large, then it creates waste.

Ok, I like where this is going. Maybe the crypto folks are sobering up and realizing that it's all a monumental waste of time.

> I premise that waste is bad and ultimately all waste dilutes the market or in some way takes something from Bitcoin, even if it’s marginal.

Alas, no, they're just trying to centralize the waste.
Steward – A Command Launcher for Chrome
Seems to me like this APU will basically be a PS5/XBox Series X chip for the PC.

Anyway, I wish for a laptop with this APU and a RTX 3xxx Ampere by next year and I can get rid of my desktop.

Thanks AMD for breathing fresh air in the PC market, it's been stale for many years.
It's because of thoughts like this that the number of tags per item is limited.

Initially they were going to allow unlimited tags until someone pointed out that you could use tags on your items as a poor mans key/value store for free.
In Germany, I have flour, but no yeast

I made a sourdough starter. It is kind of working, but some parts are tasting odd. There was also mold buildup at the margin
You purposefully misconstrued the argument to sideline any criticism. Don't attack people in defense of a company's honor, it owes nothing to you.
I have built a Flux engine adapter and managed to get good dumps with it. It is easy to build and cheap. Gets a +1 from me.
We don't trust intuition for the same reason we don't trust the output of neural networks, because the process that generated it is inscrutable. It is ironic that neural networks, an essentially irrational tool, have become so popular in a culture obsessed with rationality.
Read about stochastic terrorism.

Also, in a crisis situation like this, it is deeply irresponsible to be even slightly confusing.

And now, we have this:
https://twitter.com/MDMEMA/status/1253721510570844162
I believe you, but you're going to need to provide some sources for that.
I took this game design course[0] on Coursera for fun and found it pleasing. The students are asked to invent constrained games as assignments and they get feedback on them from their peers.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-design/home/welcome
> business is not paying for story points. They are paying for actual product and delivery.

but that's the whole problem, if you constrain time, cost and result there's no any space left for agility.

the point of agile is to maximize the value of what can be produced with a given team within a given project, you picked time and cost and you apply agile to emerge stories that are actually important to you and push back on the gold plating.

if you have all three fixed, waterfall works just fine, actually even better.
I just gave it a shot to play codenames and it worked great for us. Are there restrictions on the max number of participants per game at this time? I'm thinking this could be fun for a work happy hour.
Buy a mill folks! The one I bought for 10 years back cost me about $350. Steep, yes. Considering all that freshly ground flour in the proportions that I wanted, it was a no-brainer in hindsight. I cannot for the life of me find reasonably priced wheat kernels at this time. So paradoxically for the past 2 months it has been sitting idle!
> Deaths is not a metric that can determine which stage of this pandemic we are in. Immunity is the figure you're looking for, which will not increase under a shelter-in-place order. Deaths are down, but will immediately shoot back up if the shelter-in-place is lifted.

Absolutely not. If you believe enough information is known about herd-immunity in relation to Corona, you are dangerously misinformed.

Please don't play the "I thought you people were smarter" card if you're being downvoted for spreading misinformation.

Number of deaths DO matter in relation to:
1. Human suffering (perhaps the most important metric)
2. Learning how we prevent further deaths (calculating hospital and materials dissemination needs)

We are VERY FAR from the few responsible re-opening scenarios that exist: https://www.niskanencenter.org/tired-of-the-covid-lockdown-h...

(It it recommended we run 2 million tests a day in the US alone; the current number is 150,000).
You mean they would quit because they can afford to. In a better world no one would have to do the shitty jobs.
Are Tomatoes Keto-Friendly?
Send them to Santa Fe.

Bland will NOT be your problem.

However, you have to understand that a lot of the US really doesn't deal well with food that isn't bland--a holdover from WWII rationing and canned foods, probably. IIRC, McDonalds(?) went through a huge engineering process to attempt to add an ingredient to their pipeline. They found that adding cucumber was fine, but avocado was a step too far for the midwest.
Heat Transfer Printers in 2020 – Buyer’s Guide
A lot of the early don't wear masks was a lot more about preserving supply for people like hospital and other critical personnel that needed to continue working and had no way to avoid or distance from infected people. There's no real way I can think of to say 'yes masks are effective but you shouldn't get them because we need them for doctors' that doesn't wind up with more people buying masks and deeper shortages early.
> If you have enough money, you can send your kids to a good school and get them off to the best possible start in life.

> If you have an absurd amount of money, you don't need to worry about going bankrupt from getting sick.

I don't know where you're from, but most rich countries, and even some poorer ones, have free, quality education for all, and health care tends to be nearly free... if you get sick, the government will support you for as long as needed. If you're from a very poor country, sorry about that... maybe you should consider migrating to a better country, if you have skills that are in demand, that's pretty easy nowadays!
I'm building a Dungeons&Dragons/Pathfinder/etc remote tabletop system for my D&D party:

https://twitter.com/HunterLoftis/status/1248742209110884353

"Share a link and start playing" has been the most important quality for my group of variously-technically-experienced friends.
"Amazon.com Inc. employees have used data about independent sellers on the company’s platform to develop competing products"

Don't brick and mortar stores do this too? Not sure how popular "own brand" products are in America but in Europe grocery stores will sell "own brand" produce at cheaper prices. How do grocery stores choose what products to sell under their own brand, surely this is based on how well certain products are selling?
It's worth noting a lot of these "skip the black hole" companies only work with web development positions. Vettery, in particular, contacted me repeatedly to try to schedule an interview when I was looking once. When I told the recruiter what it was that I did in software engineering she proceeded to ask me whether I was "full stack," "back-end" or "front-end." I had to try extremely hard to get her to understand that I worked with computers that are embedded inside of devices. So it was very much a waste of time. And even after that they kept trying to get in touch with me for months.

Contrast this with traditional recruiters who at least know something about the field they're recruiting into beyond what's in vogue in SFO.
Then why doesn't everyone use Debian?
Was it from a third-party seller? If they're not using FBA, they shipped it from their own warehouse.
Does anybody know why lxd is shipped via snaps? It's kind of confusing, because it seems like snap should be built on top of lxd. If you're running a container inside of lxd inside of snap, does that mean it's two layers of sandboxing?
So my cost is $69. But it doesn't say per what!

I assume it's per month, but it really should say.
Event Sourcing/CQRS architecture and implementation
SF says Uber is retaliating against city residents for delivery-commission caps
No; they use some magic with security policies and mounts so $HOME/snap is hard coded. Some of the early comments in that "4 year old bug" linked here explain it.
Obviously you wouldn't quit your job if it pays a lot higher than the new unemployment payouts, and/or if you can easily work from home...and nobody but you is claiming that it's a character flaw to choose not to risk your life working if you have the safety net to avoid doing so.

This is a really bizarre, immature reaction to a discussion of the incentives trade-off at play here.
Yeah, that's a pretty meaty topic on its own. If you choose a mod with bad scripting, you're in for a rough ride. I always try to test a game out by myself to make sure everything functions as expected.

On the bright side, if anything messes up, you can usually press undo and just manually move the pieces around. :)
To flatten its curve.
can't they employ this technology for CMR drives? in theory the window of time it takes to write will be even smaller...
Sorry I'm not seeing anything in there that's saying number of deaths per day is rising. Can you help me navigate to where that is shown?
Art Won't Save Us (2018)
The two big projects working on this are the Purism Librem 5 and the PinePhone, both run stock Linux with no binary blobs aside from an isolated cellular modem.

The Librem 5 has been delayed for years and the behaviour of the company is kind of sketchy, however going by Purism's videos the software is pretty good and getting better rapidly (and they upstream their changes back to Gnome).

The PinePhone has shipped to some developers and the company has a history of actually making functional products, but the software is still a WIP, and Pine64's products are cheap (which is great for many people, but I would rather have a $400 phone than a <$150 phone, especially given that these ones won't suffer from software obsolescence).

I can't wait for these things to become at least somewhat functional - I personally will be buying one as soon as they get phone calling, SMS, and a web browser (the Librem has them, and other Gnome applications, but it's still in preorder).

Pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824962

Librem 5: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21369733

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303770

- https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-vs-android-which-boots-faster... (stupid comparison vs a 6 year old Android phone - how out of touch is their marketing team and CEO to allow this to happen???)
The article didn't claim the coronavirus is different in India. It instead was looking at deaths from all causes, and offered some quite plausible explanations.

You know, it might be better if you actually read the article before commenting.
https://youtu.be/N8wQtWi7sJk
It all starts with this video
CVE-2018-13379 exploit activity detected
Next step, introduce the mandatory restart as a standard.
S3 transition costs rely on knowing the number of objects being stored and are independent of storage size. If you’re moving between S3 tiers, this tool provides no input for the number of objects being transitioned. These costs can be non-trivial. Predicted savings involving S3 transitions also need to consider minimum storage duration. Consequently, this feels like a misleading tool. It would probably benefit from showing proof of working.
It's an experimental satellite, it's downlinking data rather than just being a bent-pipe relay. This is right before SGLS and the mass adoption of S-band (USB) so it's going to likely be a basic VHF BPSK kind of signal. This is also before encryption was easy so it's likely going to be in the clear.
This is just factually wrong and has no credibly outside of a few extremely left wing economists and those believe it despite the economic research or because they have not studied it. The New Deal has achieved mythical status in the left wing version of history, but that is simply not an accurate depiction of history.

If you look at the numbers in detail, you would see that when the US left the Gold Standard, growth immediately came back, industrialist production skes back up. This is pretty clear pattern with all the nations who were under deflationary pressure. Leaving the gold standard (or adjusting the exchange rate) was the fundamental thing that restarted the economy.

It is pretty clear that the NIRA actually stopped the ongoing recovery and indsutrial production only outpaced the pre-NIRA level again when NIRA was declared unconstitutional. Why anybody would declare the total madness of this program a success is just unbelievable to me. Massive destruction of food, mass slaughter of life-stock to increase prices. Blue Eagle program to 'keep prices high' were exactly the wrong things after a deflation.

Contrary to popular history, New Deal was not some brilliantly executed Keynesian program. In fact it does not fit any economics logic at all.

The US had one of the globally worst recovery path from 1931 to 1939 of all industrialized nations. Specially consider how well the came into the situation compared to everybody else. Why this period is hailed as a great success, is because it was an incredible political success as FDR managed to totally rebuild the democratic coalition. That coalition remains to this day. Of course the left and specially democrats hail it as the biggest success in centuries, because it was politically successful.

And the claimed that it 'prepared' to US is mostly wrong. Roosevelt to his credit was smart enough to kick most of the New Deal idiots out of his administration going into WW2 and worked with actually sensible people and during WW2 and after the US actually removed the majority of these terrible polices and that allowed the US to recover far better then most other countries.