skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This problem vanished overnight when Reagan, as his first act in office, repealed all the oil & gas price controls and allocation controls.

This is disingenuous. We reached a peace deal with Iran the day before Reagan's inauguration, which had a lot to do with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Accords
You're clearly a low IQ individual. I actually do work in supply chain. Your suggestion is that we ought not consider a looming crisis in the food supply chain until it actually becomes a crisis? Have you ever heard of being proactive? This doesn't "suck for Tyson," it sucks for you. You can't just increase the output for bean and rice production to replace lost supply in the poultry, beef, and pork marketplace. By the way, in my area, you can't even find beans or rice. People don't need to actually starve in order to resort to violence. Not being able to find staple foods on the shelves would be enough. Have you ever read a book? Shutting down any food production facility, for any reason other than food contamination, should be an absolutely unacceptable solution, even in the face of a pandemic.
Anecdotally I'd say links are way better. 95%+ of my karma comes from comments, but one good link can net you 100's of karma points, whereas the very best comments ever might get you 60-70.

Writing comments is easier, but links are definitely more bang for the buck if that's what you're going for.
Wow, that's pretty awful. And they did implement the moronic voting buttons, too (facepalm).

Lurker wipes the floor with Hyperkitty.

(And is fast: C++ that generates static pages!)
> To me, that sounds like the result of having no real options and playing video games constantly to avoid facing that reality...

I think that is the point of the parent comment. Some people think it is horrible, like a result of having no options, and some people think it is ideal! Personally, I would go crazy without deadlines hanging over my head and lots of resources to tackle those deadlines with.
Real Median Household Income in the United States

Highpoints:

2018: 63179

2007: 60985

1999: 61576

1989: 56678

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

P.S. GDP in constant dollars since 1985: Japan, US, EU, and the OECD countries.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?end=2018...
I think this might be caused by autosave being enabled in VSCode, but this is just idle speculation.
How Lean Canvas saved me from working on a bad idea
this is a huge win - although it's interesting that Ginsburg and some other "liberal" judges seem to side with Georgia in saying that the state should be able to put the law of the land behind a pay wall.
icdiff is my current favorite.

This does look nice, though I'm a little confused by the choice to highlight the section below the function declaration change even though it doesnt appear to have a change.
Wikipedia article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
Flirt: Network analysis tool to identify infected travelers and goods
Im currently reading Archipel Gulag from Alexander Solschenitzyn and that joke sounds quite familliar.
The reality of the past century in Russia really proved optimists wrong.
Devestating to read that book. It literally puts me on breaks to just sit and think.
Sad that humans are capable of such cruelty.
I took this as more like when you write a letter to a magazine and they say to write "Ok to print" so they can use it later. If you send them a message for use in MayThe4th celebrations, they can then use it in promotions.
I think you either fail to read comments in their entirety or just focus on one thing. So I'll say it again "Someone who can't hold firm won't hold firm. It doesn't matter if they 'No', or 'I need to think about it'".
> Most ad groups have regulations on what ads can and cannot do.

How do you explain Facebook ads for scams that claim price X but actually hammer your payment cards with multiple X * 10 charges until it declines? A friend got caught by that, we ended up doing a chargeback but Facebook didn't get punished in any way despite their complicity in this fraud.

How do you explain tech support scam ads?

How do you explain "chumboxes" like Outbrain/Taboola as in here: https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern... (the image URLs are broken, you need to manually get the image's URLs, change the protocol to HTTPS and open the resulting link to see them).

Maybe some ad groups have internal regulations, but I as a user have no control of which ad networks I'm exposed to. On the other hand, in the street, all businesses have to comply with local laws and given that I don't see scam tech support banners or credit card scams advertised on storefronts I guess the laws are working, and if they aren't, laws can be amended if there's enough public support for it (some locations completely banned billboards for example).

> Check the thread you're in. It's about an ad network addressing this specific problem.

"Google will suspend the accounts of advertisers that do not provide proof of identity, including W9 forms, passports and other personal identification and business incorporation files"

Seems like a pretty low bar to clear with either forged documents (again, someone already breaking the law with scam or spam ads isn't going to be deterred by this), paying vulnerable people in a slum for scans of their passports or just using a string of shell companies to muddy the trail.
> Is this not the case in others' experience?

My experience is that C++ programs that try to be "Java" are the worst programs, from the performance standpoint, that can be written of all. And here I mean the "Java" practice that whatever object you have, it has to be made with "new." When one wants the really good performance in C++ that's the worst one can do. And my observation includes all implicit allocations due to the use of the "containers." Not to mention other effects that then get to be problem by the long-running programs.

That being said, in the targets I used the compiler was effectively never able to avoid calling actual malloc and free behind the new, and that matches your experience: malloc an free themselves were much bigger overhead than a few instructions that wrapped them to appear as "new."

It was however a few years ago the last time I analyzed something like that -- specifically for the code which has to be really fast I simply avoid having these wrapped "malloc" allocations in the hot paths, so I haven't had to investigate that specific aspect.
similar to crypto libraries, one should seriously rethink about building a distributed systems from scratch. Unless thats the only goal.

I have worked on this topic in academia and industry for many years and I can safely say, there is a huge disconnect between real world tools and academia. ROI for model checkers is too low, unless your building mission critical systems.

For a CRUD like application, simple things like

1. Distributed Tracing
2. Log Analysis
3. Basic concepts like exponential backoff with retries
etc seems to iron out most of the issues.

Lately, we started using chaos testing methods, where we have dedicated build pipelines with fault injection and see, if the system can function as expected. That has helped us uncover / fix many distributed system bugs. In terms of ROI and learning curve, chaos testing seems a much better approach than using model checkers and other sophisticated methods.
The moment they start showing ads is the moment I drop netflix
> the supply of gas never matched the demand for it

That was more a result of the fact that, as you mentioned, it was the 1970s gas crisis.
It’s a welcome decision, but a very obvious one. Why did Georgia need to get told that we, the people, own the laws?
Yes - can someone shed some light on how someone would (a) compromise a subdmomain and (b) get a cert issued? This seems like you would need to be internal to the org, not the 3rd party exploit the article is trying to push?
The article opens with the actual problem and then just seems to ignore it?

Any food bank can make a call and then just drive a truck to the warehouse storing this food and fill it to the brim for free. We do basically the same thing with grocery stores all the time. We get entire pallets. And even when it gets to us we still end up having a good portion of it rot for the same damn reason it’s rotting in the warehouse. We can’t afford to move it.
I can't speak for the greater New York area, but limiting to NYC, there are about 8.3 million inhabitants. As of today, about 12k Covid19 deaths. If it's true that about 21% of the population has been infected so far [1], that's 1.75 million, so a fatality rate of 0.7%. Let's say herd immunity for the very dense NYC is reached at 80%. That's an additional 4.9 million new yorkers who will get the virus. At the current fatality rate of 0.7% that's 34.3k additional deaths. If we extend for many months the lockdown, maybe we bring the fatality rate to 0.5% due to protocol improvements. That's a 24.5k dead, or about 9k saved. We are talking about 9000 people saved, not 160000. But keep in mind, the 9000 people saved are just the Covid19 victims. There will be additional deaths due to months and months of missed "elective" healthcare. People with diabetes, hypertension, etc, etc, who are not managing their condition properly because if you're not Covid19, nobody cares about you anymore. Who is counting these invisible victims? After you put them in, it's not clear on a net basis how many people you save, but it's probably in the low single digit thousands, if there.

Now, notice that I did not mention so far anything about unemployment, bankruptcies, tenant evictions, foreclosures, or any of the other myriad of economic illnesses. I kept the discussion strictly about healthcare, and who dies who lives.

I'm in favor of keeping the lockdown for a bit longer, but keeping it for many months doesn't make too much sense, even if you completely disregard the economic consequences.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22958352
> Show HN: This up votes itself

Ironic that that is still number one. A shady way to submit a bug, but props to HN for not burying it or punishing the submitter.
It is, you still need to document everything in detail, be ready to reply to requests, take care how and where you store data internally etc.
Regulators don't need to be

> scheming, wicked villains, or power hungry idiots

to explain any of their recent misbehavior - perfectly banal explanations suffice. At the end of the day, our regulators will let people die invisibly if it means avoiding bad press because that's what they are incentivized to do.
Much text in business has become the ever growing wrapper for:

"As the writer, I get as much monetary value as I can or at least make you believe as such and you give up as much monetary value as possible, or at least as much as I can scare or deter you from seeking. I also have no responsibilities and all rights, while you have all responsibilities and no rights."

It's simply expanded out a bit more and often gives explicit examples. It's completely unmanageable for any common citizen to process and understand what you almost have to agree to on daily basis to function in our ever more privatized world.

The amount of garbage I see on a daily basis wrapped with passive aggressive legal threats around every corner is mind numbing. I even still get emails from people who add footers that they own the information and if you receive it wrongfully, you're "required" to delete it.

We essentially have a bunch of children running around running society through businesses driven by greed who never fully socially developed into functioning reasonable and responsible adults.
I think it's actually that of all the western world, Americans are the most obsessed about government conspiracies.

Which is so weird because despite all this rugged "fight for your rights", Americans have some of the weakest labour and health rights. But I guess you do have the right to say you have very weak rights!
Yeah, distinct possibility IMHO.
You can't put it back in the box. Once an abusable capability exists, it will be abused.

The most effective time to try to create a pervasive surveillance system is when people are afraid.

Also, there's no evidence that a more invasive system is "more effective". If a privacy-preserving system is equally effective, there's no valid argument. And in any case, if a privacy-preserving system is effective enough to get community transmission under control (bringing R below 1), that may suffice.
Oh, thanks! Will edit this ASAP!
Palantir goes to space, inking first deal with Space Force
Coronavirus Lingers in Air of Crowded Spaces
Well it isn't a huge issue (let's be honest, they don't care much, and it's hard to imagine why they would care), and it is actually a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the actual spread of a virus in real time, which would keep researchers busy for years.

This shows the limit of individualism, the belief that I am all (this is what the privacy issue is about). An epidemic is when the group must prevail over the individual and cultures that are more group-orientated react much more effectively (China/Taiwan, Korea).
That dissent refers to "non-binding annotations" which are more like the opinions of the law-makers, hence not part of their duties because they are not law.
Where in settings? I've just checked everything.
How to Sbt and CrossScalaVersions and Bintray
Show HN: SVG Path Visualizer
I like amazons neural one. However it does sound like it's morphing between two persons...
I think its important to give the power to the people by allowing them to omit tokens from sensitive time points. In the current protocol, that means losing a whole days worth of contacts. If you reduce the period to an hour, you still allow people to share the contacts made on their commute or their lunch break without divulging or tracing them back to more sensitive time periods they don't want to be traced back to.
Np, Working now :)
Those two things are coincidences, not any sort of causality.

The US had implemented price controls which affected the fundamental interaction of the demand and supply curves.

Had the US let the price float, the price would have risen (probably considerably), and the country would have gone into recession. Upon which, the price for oil would have fallen, and things would have gotten back to normal.

Instead, the 1970's is a story full of price controls and the impact they have not just on the economy, but on the psyche as well (hint: look up "malaise" and Jimmy Carter).
That Feynman snippet was so awesome. Flawless. Thanks for sharing it.
I'm not sure I entirely agree, but Ross Anderson deserves to be read on the topic: https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2020/04/12/contact-traci...
Fair, but I can think of few (if any) engines that are a whole lot better on that particular metric.
Conditional rendering in React Native may crash your app
Until this is done in Reactive programming style, this is far from complete.
Well if anything serious is found post-sale then like any medication, a recall should be issued. But like you said, all good in theory :) If any vaccine manufacturer engages in fraud and massages the data, then that is a human greed issue, not really unique to our industry. I do make a distinction between pharmaceutical and biologics though. But on the whole I would say that due to the strong regulatory framework in place, and the active role that the FDA plays, we have less of that compared to other industries like finance/markets for e.g.
I've been working with SVGs for some time and always struggled to understand the path data syntax so I figured I'd build a visualizer for it.

Enter an SVG path data (the string inside the d attribute) to visualize it and discover all its different commands.
In case someone sees '5-4' and assumes the standard Republican vs Democractic appointee divide, this is definitely not what happened. Might be a case where one should read the various justices' opinions before deciding how they feel about the case.
That is not actually the same thing.

PHP 6 was thrown away never to be seen from again, because it was seen as bad.

Perl 6 was renamed because both Perl 5 and Perl 6 are significantly different active languages.

If Perl went to 7 it could indicate to some that 6 was bad in the same way. That is it would trade one confusion for another.

---

If Perl truly wants to go beyond 5, it should make a major step.

Either by going to the subversion (32), or the year (2020).
Hi, this weekend I wrote an article about conditional rendering with && (logical AND) operator.

Conditional rendering done wrong leads to errors in React Native that seems to jump on occasionally. Prints characters in web React and leads to confusion.

Read what is happening and how to prevent further mistakes.
pretty sure, and as others have noted, smell is probably the primary sense. i have a couple female neighbors she adores, and when they're nearby/coming home, she whimpers excitedly before i can hear anything. on the other hand, with a couple male neighbors she's slightly worried about, she'll do more of a grunt/growl.

but visual, and even auditory, cues are also used. size, posture, stance, and gait, are all pretty good (but not perfect) indications of human gender. she's alerted on ambigously dressed people over 100 ft away who were walking in a lumbering/macho way, but ignores or sometimes wags her tail for those who don't move that way.

edit: should note that sensing potential aggression/danger is probably a large component of this behavior too.
An arena allocator isn't going to be the underpinning of the new operator.
What's terrible about the store?
It can work in a limited fashion using iBeacons. These have special status on iPhones allowing them to be received by an app even in the background. But even these are rate limited and each iBeacon can only wake up the app once when it comes into range.
If they are 2 languages they shouldn't share a wiki. It could be heavily interlinked but duplicating an article into the British English wiki doesn't seem like a problem (all language wikipedias do it)

Other language wikipedias also value topics differently. A British English wikipedia would prefer citations from Britain. In many national cases it would merit having more than one article or articles of different opinion.
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Fewer people got sick in China, because of the extreme lock-down and quarantine measures. I've said this several times now. Are you trolling me?
Lol. Grow up. If enough food production facilities shut down, the federal government will begin conscripting people to work in them. There's a 0% chance that the federal government will go for civil unrest for an issue which has an obvious solution.
Support Artists Impacted by the Covid-19 Pandemic
I laughed at this one as I've not heard of MJD in a very long time.
I think it's up to you to upload the data? It seems like it depends how the app is designed. The protocol doesn't specify it.
I think travelers might be managed by a more "high touch" quarantining process in most countries to ensure they cannot spread the virus.
I'd be happy to install it for the duration of the outbreak. It's not as if I'm doing anything terribly interesting.

It doesn't sound like it would collect anywhere near as much personal data as Google, or the government, already does.

For the sake of protecting lives and getting out of lockdown quicker to rebuild the economy I'm prepared to sacrifice a little privacy.

Edit: I don't particularly care, but there seems to be a systematic approach from some users to voting down posts for expressing honestly held beliefs that a balanced approach can be taken with respect to privacy.
Awesome. I had a smartphone with an IR emitter once. Tried using it to control my air conditioners but for some reason it couldn't do what this Game Boy can do.
Let’s not forget a benchmark is not a typical application. Just because it does improve without using dynamic linking does not conclude it would so in every application.
But, I definitely would not dynamically link a custom allocator. For me it would be the improved memory usage and performance, which I do not want to risk loosing.
The Skill Overload Syndrome
Copyright is fairly applied to Disney. There were many beneficiaries to its extension, large and small. In any case, it is a matter of law, just like earlier, shorter copyright protections were.

It's totally legitimate to favor shorter copyright, but essentially any duration is an arbitrary one. It strikes me as odd that you would be interested in applying the law fairly while also referring to the law as a perversion.
Why this British crossroads is so dangerous [video]
For background on this, see https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/justices-debate-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

> The 1979 (or second) oil crisis or oil shock occurred in the world due to decreased oil output in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.

Claiming they're coincidences is silly.
I also think that if it does matter, it could be a sign you're using new too much.

In other words, the style of "invoke new every time I need a new object" is not really what most people who care about performance do. There are higher level patterns than that, and often pluggable allocators, which could make the call out-of-line anyway, etc.
This article raises a valid question: Do we really want the welfare systems in many countries to be deeply intertwined with the data collection, analysis, and monitoring apparatuses of tech giants?

However, the title is click-bait -- in particular, using a loaded word like "colonize" seems in very poor taste to me.
I mostly click on them by accident.
I view these as very similar.

A proof can fail for many reasons, and even in the simplest possible case, where the tool provides you with a counter example it could either be a real bug in the design/program/protocol, but there could also be something wrong with the specification you were given, or in your implementation of the specification, or in some assumptions you've made to simplify the proof, or there's ambiguity in the natural language description, or even some typo somewhere.

You now need to understand the domain and the system well enough to come up with an explanation of the phenomena. This is debugging.
I'd like to play with a hackable smart watch, but it seems like the mainstream brand ones are cryptologically secured from boot, and the hackable ones are cheaply-made/aren't up to spec.

And the devices you mention probably also have strong crypto to prevent tinkering...
Not really.

I'm not a water snob or chemist but I've been around.

What qualifies tap as "good" is highly subjective but on the one hand you have places like Florida where the tap is desalinated and tastes like farm runoff, and then you have places like Southern California where the mineral content/hardness of the water itself makes it taste like soapy bathwater. I've even noticed it vary within the same municipality-- in two apartments I rented in Atlanta, one mile apart, one had tap that tasted fine, the other (near a swamp) tasted like sewage (we were convinced groundwater was seeping into the water main).

In cases of hard water, the brewing process seems to serve as its own distillery that separates minerals from the water. The resulting water/coffee tastes fine to me but you'll find all sorts of mineral buildup clogging your coffee maker if it doesn't have its own filtration system (my Cuisinart has a filter-on-a-stick that lowers into the water tank).

Nothing seems to make Florida water palatable though. That taste passes straight through into the coffee, like burned urine. Use distilled.
Not only that, a pound of meat takes like a hundred pounds of veggies to feed the animal (I pulled that number out of my ass for rhetorical effect, whatever the real number it's large. One or two orders of magnitude.)