skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developers... are punished for caring.

Stubborn people like me keep doing the right thing, but the fact is that there are kudos and recognition for implementing a new feature. There is nothing for keeping servers from crashing, and only a little for reducing server count if you wait for things to get bad first.

The problem with doing things right the first time is nobody appreciates how hard it was. And you will sometimes get questioned about your loyalty and your competence to do the job.
I can see it too → https://i.imgur.com/UeMHPys.png Clicking the “Send internal feedback” link triggers an error in the JavaScript console that says “ReferenceError: Can't find variable: FEATURE_STRING” while clicking the “Show Consoles” link simply toggles an internal state that apparently makes a development console visible to whoever has access to a debug UI. I found "gfeedback.js" but following the code all the way down only results in a request to https://www.google.com/tools/feedback
The answer to all 3 responses is 'perception' less so 'what happens on the site' although they are related.

Amazon is not known for porn. I didn't even know you could get porn there. Certainly, it's not 'online porn' which I would imagine would be the primary issue.

Tumblr became a place known for adult content so it was a problem. If Amazon started to do a lot of digital porn, like PornHub, it would be a problem.

If there is no 'search' on Patreon ... maybe they could keep it hidden. But it's a big risk.
There's enough different people in different industries, counting various things, that you can't really hide the truth for very long. If you have enough different kinds of metrics, you can paint a very clear picture of trends.
Wait, for loops and nested conditions is an OO concept? What does Elixir do instead?
> 1. They have slightly over 12% death rate currently and Denmark has slightly over 4%.

This site isn't a great way to compare death rates. There's some baked in assumptions. If we compare statistical results we need 1 to 1 comparisons, or an understanding of the limitations of the comparisons.

The lion's share of testing is going to those that are sick. We've already established that <20% of covid cases go to the hospital. It is frequently recommended that one does not go to the hospital unless one is seriously sick. We also know that covid is highly asymptomatic. These people aren't ever going to be tested unless they are in a study specifically that is looking at random but representative samples of the population. Additionally, these countries have different median ages.This is important when we're talking about a disease that affects people dramatically differently by age. (e.g. Italy would be expected to be hit hard because it has an old population that frequently smokes). Also, countries are not uniform in their travel structure, i.e. how dense the country is and strength of nodal connections between dense areas. Finally, strategies were applied at different times in their curves.

So the issues are:

- We don't have 100% testing coverage and this data isn't a representative sample.

- Countries aren't uniform in their age or habits or pollution

- Countries aren't uniform in density and nodal connections.

- Countries applied different strategies at different times.
U.S. Reels to a Meat Shortage and Prices Are Getting Weird
In general, most compressed file formats don't even bother to be resilient against errors, since error correction mostly runs against the point of compression (to make files as small as possible). Some file formats do have error detection - for example, PNG provides a CRC-32 of every chunk, and compressed formats like Zip and gzip have similar checksums.

If you happen to know (or guess) that a compressed file with a checksum only has 1-2 bytes in error, it is definitely possible to recover the original file through bruteforce. You can probably even do this to a file without a checksum just by testing which possibilities parse correctly.

However, corruption on filesystems rarely takes the form of a small number of bytes; oftentimes the file's metadata gets corrupted such that entire blocks of the file (anywhere from 512 bytes to 64KB) are swapped, dropped or lost. Instead of worrying about corruption-resistant image formats (since storing everything as uncompressed TIFF/BMP is incredibly wasteful), it's probably worth using a more corruption-resistant filesystem instead (i.e. not FAT!).
Who are the scammer's in this thesis?
Video of Bullets Hitting 'Unbreakable' Prince Rupert's Drops
Can confirm, I was taught MIPS assembly in a computer architecture course as recently as 2 years ago.
The reason the CDC aren't doing a million tests a day right now is because there is a massive global shortage of every single consumable needed to do this and no easy way to expand manufacturing. Even Germany, which has pretty much the best testing capacity for coronavirus of any country out there in per-capita terms, has been stalled at about 50,000 tests per day for a few weeks and it's not for any lack of desire to expand that. Trusted American media institutions like the New York Times and their Editorial Board have been giving people wildly overblown ideas about what would be possible if it wasn't for the hated Trump and his incompetence for stupid, partisan reasons.
I'm probably oversimplifying, but there is some truth to the notion of Apple being as much a fashion company as they are a tech company, and smart-watches fit perfectly into that niche of fashion-tech.

FitBit was a good product, but Apple had more experience and resources available when they decided to enter the space.

Even so, I have no doubt there were other factors at play as well.
Sounds fair, thank you for your reply!
>Do Lupus sufferers take blood thinners?

Not necessarily. People with a lupus anticoagulant[1] and a history of inappropriate thrombosis would.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupus_anticoagulant
Some of it is due to the language and the general JS tooling being bloated and slow.

However, in many cases build time is slow because you're doing something that's slow, like calling a REST API. You are not going to generate 10k pages in 2sec if you need to make 10k REST requests, each taking 100ms, to a remote API to fetch the data for your pages. This kind of "data integration" from various sources is a standard use cases for site generators like gatsby and next.js. It seems like what this is targeting is smarter caching to avoid such expensive calls when possible.

Hugo is different in that it basically just transforms local HTML/Templates/Markdown. That's always fast. Even JS can handle that.
You'd think with a name like that that this would be a daemon that would take as input the cores of killed child processes.
It seems since Elixir is purely functional you don't mutate things. So basically you use tail call optimised recursion for everything. Neat.
>it's a warning not to use flags that you don't fully understand.

and how many people were told to do chown -R from stackoverflow?
> Rokr had nothing to do with Apple.

Incorrect. The Rokr E1 was how Apple built the relationship with AT&T, a test which ultimately resulted in the iPhone launch happening on AT&T.
Fitbit should have iterated on their devices, making them more accurate while maintaining "host platform" neutrality. Instead, they thought they were in a position to compete against Apple and Samsung in "tiny wrist computers" and the rest of the story is history.
Phinergy did just that with their aluminium-air (primary) battery and yet they never commercialized their tech.
I keep coming back to since we don't know the details very well right now and risk of catastrophe is high then executing the laundry list of interventions is the most prudent option until we have better data.

Maybe we figure out that children and teenagers basically don't get it or spread it. Then we can guardedly reopen schools. But not before we aren't certain it isn't going to blow up in our faces.
Perhaps. Though I'd hope the centralized system is more lean, transparent, and capable than say an opaque market ruled by big players leveraging regulatory capture to fleece patients and providers alike.
"Getting fees for routing comes at the cost of getting the best price for your purchase orders"

That's implying everyone else does it, but if it was legal and standard practice, Robinhood wouldn't have gotten in trouble for it. The dynamic seems similar to being taken in by a crooked politician - the pol says "everyone else is a crook", people vote for him, he is proven to be a crook, it doesn't matter because people continue to believe everyone else is just as bad.

"the real opportunity isn’t for people like me and you, but for brokerages that are roping us in"

Haha not necessarily:

"The price of the May 2020 contract dropped to an unprecedented negative price of $37.63...Several Interactive Brokers LLC (“IBLLC”) customers held long positions in these CME and ICE Europe contracts, and as a result they incurred losses in excess of the equity in their accounts. IBLLC has fulfilled the firm’s required variation margin settlements with the respective clearinghouses on behalf of its customers. As a result, the Company has recognized an aggregate provisionary loss of approximately $88 million."
If you bet big, you may lose and eat the dust.

If you don't, and play cautiously, your competition will eat your market and starve you. You still eat the dust.

I just don't get it.
Common table expressions were all I needed to write <a href="https://modern-sql.com/use-case/literate-sql">literate SQL</a> and make it perfectly readable when I come back. But I was doing it almost full time so I wasn't forgetting much either.
No, that was the date of launch, along with a keynote from the caesar.
The Oculus Quest is an out-of-the-box experience. Oculus is aiming for mainsteam market with this. Maybe you're confusing the Quest (standalone) with the Rift S (wired).

As soon as you unbox the Quest you're ready for the onboarding process (which is quite enjoyable btw). No PC or additional hardware required.
See also : SATAN
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_...
I know that feeling, but at the same time, if Marketing makes the sales, and the customers are happy, the plan is working. And I have definitely seen cases where constraints bred creativity, and the ridiculous promises of marketing actually did force the devs to be more creative and sometimes spark some miracle, aka, some really creative and innovative approach to the problem. It also often falls flat, but that's the gamble I guess.
You can get a fair distance with character classes[1] like `[[:digit:]]` and free-spacing[2] with `/x` or `(?x)`, where supported.

And/or yeah, build regexes out of descriptive fragments. It doesn't take much effort to make them readable, you don't have to have one giant blob of !(#&$()*. Plus then your regexes become relatively easily-validated teaching tools for readers.

[1]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html#clas...

[2]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/freespacing.html
Trump Admin Gives Coronavirus Tracking Contract to Peter Thiel's Palantir
Flint Michigan is an example of how too much trust and not enough verify can go wrong.
At some point I feel like we moved from 'deregulation and open markets' to a federal plutocrat enshrinment and oligarch protection program.

This behavior will not change because of a single election for a handful of seats 6 months away.

There was talk of a constitutional convention back in 2016 and I think it's time to think about how regular folks can recapture the direction of the nation.
Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on silicon
Hey, just a friendly Elixir user here! Could you explain why you think that maps vs. structs is a pain point? I found this interesting because I personally really like how they are so similar, because you can almost always manipulate a struct like a map, just like you'd expect. It lets you use standard operations for working with structs.
> Is there reason to think that people in the past were more selfless and less economically motivated?

Einstein certainly was.
... and slaughterbots unfortunately.
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Only if the person tested is more than 100 years old (ie spanish flu antibodies)
Yeah it’s pretty clear that the president is responsible for legislative drafting. :-/
I totally agree. I love phoenix and elixir but it's been hard to roll out a really significant site to production because many of the things you take for granted in the rails world don't exist in the elixir world. Friendly id, acts as follower, public activity, file uploading and more are not as easy in the elixir world as rails. I think rails is still king when it comes to developer productivity but elixir's performance is amazing. And for those of you that are "roll your own", when it comes to business decisions you always have to make a trade off. Heck authentication in the elixir world is just now finally getting official support via a generator (thank Jose!) but it's not even close to devise levels of easy.
Are you going to be that daft?
> I just don't get it.

Nobody likes to admit it, but luck is 99% of success.
Absolutely there would be.

On the other hand, the results from the recent antibody testing in California[1] (if they're accurate) would suggest a much lower death rate - around 0.1% - 0.2%.

I fully agree that social distancing is the right move with the current data, but I wonder if that will continue to be the case as we come to understand the virus and its actual infection-fatality-rate more.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01095-0
People keep talking about flattening the curve, which is important, but I think this kind of stuff is just as important. We're still trying to get an idea of what's even going on. The next couple months, I think, will see huge steps being taken in terms of how to treat this thing and keep people alive.

Right now if you can push back your infection date by even just a matter of weeks, you're probably improving your odds by a nontrivial amount.
The point of the tail call is to not have to maintain the activation that you are tail calling from.

So we’d need to reconstruct some information about the activation. How are you proposing we do that? From what information?

Are you suggesting we could store some metadata perhaps? Can you suggest a mechanism for the metadata we should use? There’s a tricky constraint before you suggest an idea! It has to use constant storage, because making storage not grow with the number of calls is the whole point in the first place.
I think they just never had a great product. Look at VR, even though the products are becoming really good, it is not hitting mainstream and this is even more niche.

The startup cost is enormous, it is really hard to create good content and there is close to zero revenue since there are few users. And the users that does exist is the techie crowd that doesn't like to pay for anything.
If you are using all the capabilities of your smartphone, it should be adding way more value to your life, than it costs. That's what makes smartphones indispensible - a huge ROI.

Edit: Wanted to share a tip. If you are planning to buy an iPhone anyway, be sure to get Apple Card. You'll get a 3% discount on your purchase, and they will let you pay 24 equal monthly payments with no interest.
MIPS is sort of the original RISC, since one of the two originators of the RISC concept (Hennessy) was a founder of MIPS Computer Systems in 1984. POWER is also RISC, but basically doesn't have any traction beyond IBM itself. SPARC lives on only in radiation-hardened form for the European space agency. Various others never even achieved that level of commercial significance. So it's basically "less RISC than it used to be" Arm, and "more RISC than it used to be" x86.

But there is one notable CISC still out there: IBM's mainframe z/Architecture. Might not sell a lot of units, but it's still pretty important commercially.
That's the same risk you have with any open source project. Elixir and Phoenix have similar risks. I think there's a lot to be said for getting default/easy functionality for free so you can focus on building your unique amazing things vs working on plumbing.
I checked that, and the difference was that we went from among the cheapest internet costs in 2017, to even lower.

2017 figures and 2019 figures are significantly different if you are poor, however that doesn't mean that prices were high.

And there isn't anything like a free lunch - Reliance has achieved these costs through a variety of means, both legal and supra legal.

Their "creative" ways to abuse the network testing period for example (and the non response from the regulator), their use and harvesting of private data to inform other parts of their empire and their efforts to take over the market bode ill for India.

Remember that Net neutrality was won because we got lucky and there was enough political capital for people like Nilekani to also advocate for it through the government machinery.

However when NN 3.0 happens, Reliance will not let it pass.

With a market without competition, they will succeed - since they have to spend less effort competing and can afford their lobbying.
Well, OK, but gasoline's energy storage includes its own mass, which is combusted to release the energy, whereas the mass of a battery is basically constant despite charging and discharging, so it's not directly comparable in the sense you describe.

However, now that you bring it up, given that the most efficient ICE cars are about 25% efficent, you get at most 3200Wh of actual usable propulsive energy from the kg of gasoline. If the claims pan out, that is within shooting distance of these Li-S batteries' specific energy, even when accounting for EVs' 60-80% battery-to-wheel efficiency.
Apple could have easily replaced the screen on the 8 body with one of the XR with Face ID. It’s an admission that Face ID is another failure, along side the dreadful touchbar. None of the macs have Face ID and now a brand new phone without Face ID. Apple has iOS one day someone will replace it and Apple will be buggered.
Um, that link is this year, and for the same topic, at the same time...
You can put Cloudflare in front the bucket for free egress and a global cdn
Computer predicts that the end of civilization will start in 2020 (1973)
C# Seems to Be Losing Its Edge in Desktop
Amazon's VR-Centric Show Is Called Upload (Really), Premieres in May
Naming things is hard in software. But some people won't even bother trying.
Doesn't Scala already do this?
Besides the deaths of those sailors it was a big meh.
Repurchasing shares is what companies do with profits they cannot effectively leverage into new investments. I suggest you read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_repurchase

But to sum up: if you are a company with $1 million on hand at the end of the year you have to disperse it somehow.

- If you put it in a bank account you'll earn 0.2% interest on your "investment"

- If you pay out dividends your shareholders will earn 1-2% (estimate) on their investments

- If you buy back your own stock your shareholders can see 4-5% (estimate) on their investments + you have shares you can award to employees in the form of options or direct without diluting the market

The number 1 factor in your decision? Taxes. Which option pays the least tax? Option 3
I currently believe rising administrative overhead accounts for most of the cost increase. Single payer is a straightforward proven solution.

Switching from fee-for-service to prevention (capitation) would give us another 25% savings.

But I'm newly interested in notions related to cost disease. Am keen to hear anything anyone has to say about mitigation.
There's a huge difference between all-cause mortality numbers being wrong, and covid-19-attributed deaths being wrong.

The only way the all-cause mortality numbers can be significantly wrong is if you suddenly find piles of corpses and skeletons around, and that they belong to people who magically weren't being missed or noticed by friends, family, neighbours, etc. And the only way for governments to hide these numbers would be by digging mass graves, shoveling them full of dead bodies, and hoping no-one notices. This simply does not happen, modern countries do not get this number wrong. If there's any public statistic you can count on going back centuries, it would be the number of births and the number of deaths.

Excess mortality is simply graphing the number of deaths backwards through time, to find trend curves and spikes in the trend curves. Those numbers are as correct as the underlying numbers.

In comparison, correctly attributing a death to covid-19 is very difficult right now. Tests are in short supply, so a lot of countries aren't testing already dead people, because those tests can be better used elsewhere, to save lives. There might be political pressure to downplay the severity of covid-19, so cause of death gets fudged here and there. Cause of death is also not always straight-forward, a lot of people are dying with covid-19, not from covid-19, how should they be counted? Different countries have different rules here.

The NYTimes article is saying that a bunch of countries have unexplained excess mortality, quite a lot of it actually. And since the most likely cause of those deaths are in fact covid-19, it means that those countries are under-reporting, i.e. their numbers are garbage. In comparison to those countries, Sweden's covid-19 deaths align pretty well with Sweden's excess deaths. The official number is still probably wrong, but there's absolutely no way that Sweden's covid-19 numbers are more garbage than those other countries, and there's absolutely no way that Sweden is under-reporting to the same extent.
> reimplemented many characters 1:1 including soldier (pharah), medic (mercy), demo (junkrat), engi (torj)

I would disagree that these are 1:1 (they share some abilities at best) but would agree that elements of TF2 and their character abilities are indeed nearly 100% spread out across different characters in Overwatch.

E.g. Medic's uber = Ana's nano, engineer's teleporter = sym teleporter, engineer's turret = Torb's turret
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