skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine is an X220s, so slightly newer than yours, but still a modest i3, upgraded to 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and dual-band WLAN. With a new 9-cell battery, I get ~6 hours of battery life, and it's fine for general browsing with a decent number of open tabs, even a few games (Darkest Dungeon and some emulated SNES games).

As long as it keeps ticking and I can get whichever spare parts I need on eBay or something, I'm not going to replace it anytime soon.

The only reason I have a more powerful desktop PC (still ~2011 vintage) and don't just use the X220s in a dock, is that it it struggles with a 1440p external monitor (full HD is fine, though) and I sometimes like to play more graphically intense games.
It would be great if these were released under some kind of open licensing. Requiring a backlink/credit would do wonders for promoting the project as these would likely get used across all kinds of professional and amateur media.

Then again, these pics obviously took an extraordinary amount of skill/travel/equipment so it's perfectly understandable that they aren't freely licensed.
Until that ownership takes an offshore detour.
With all my heart, I agree with you; but I wished I shared some of your enthusiasm.

I've been brought up with the saying, 'The sole purpose of education is to help a person think sensibly in difficult times'.

However, I've not come across any _major_ shift in education systems worldwide. Yes, there are heartening stories about a few charter school systems [1] and a few countries making strides (like Finland). But these are one off success stories.

I do hope that technology companies make a step towards solving this.
But our startup culture, unfortunately, also is laced with trying to 'show growth' all the time and that leads us to think short term too.
Perhaps something like the LTSE may help private players take long term bets (fingers crossed).

Also, even the history of education is ripe with missteps [2], mind you :) not unlike the decision by YouTube here (as someone said, The road to hell is paved with good intentions)

Don't get me wrong, I want to be as optimistic as you are :)

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/KIPP
(I think I came across this while reading Outliers by Gladwell)

[2] http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/AHistory.html
I agree totally. I haven't seemed much informed discussion along these lines, but the only two possabilities I see are:

1) The antibody studies are incorrect, and over-counting the infection rate.

2) COVID-19 spreads much more easily than influenza, and so a large percentage of the population has become infected much quicker than typical influenza spread patterns.

Neither option is great, though to me of the two, #2 seems more hopeful, since assumedly we'd get herd immunity relatively quickly.
imagine how many pixels that is at retina density
The first big jump in the graph, the Fed printing lots of money after the 2008 crisis, was followed by negative 1% inflation in 2009.

The same will happen here, the Fed is creating lots of inflation, but not enough to cancel out the deflation caused by the virus and lockdown.
Ahaha! Found in Infoworld Vol. 10 Issue 1 (January 1988)...

Headline: “RUNNING OS/2 ON THE MAC II: DO USERS CARE?”

Choice quotes: “The Mac 286 has everything necessary to run OS/2, but we haven’t tested it” ... “If a guy’s already got a Mac II, the idea of running OS/2 is pretty ludicrous.”
Everything decays. The hardware that your software runs on dies and no one can find a replacement. The regulations covering your business change. Your vendor stops supporting SSLv2Hello. Your clients ask for a feature that your competitors provide. IBM raises prices on your contract that renewed last week to make up for flagging revenue. Suddenly 3-9s of uptime isn't enough for your clients and you need a second datacenter.

Once it starts costing more than $200 a person/hour to deal with things like this you are kinda hosed. Especially when it will take thousands of hours to make a change. Hence why everyone wants to move to cheaper languages like Java, Node.JS, etc...

Otherwise, you end up with a COBOL system running on a linux virtual machine that is emulating an IBM mainframe from 1992 that is nearly impossible to maintain because the developers have all died or retired and left no documentation. Your remaining contractors have billed a quarter million in costs and the change still isn't working.
Regulation would not prevent Whole Foods and “some independent company” sharing data and producing these white label products to be sold exclusively at Whole Foods.

This very easily defeated regulation is a perfect example why they aren’t a silver bullet. Throwing your hands up and saying “just make government fix everything” isn’t realistic, there is overhead and cost and bad precedent in that.
This is a classic report covering the NATO conference on "Software Engineering". EVERYONE involved with computers and computer systems would benefit from reading it. The authors did more than compile the papers presented, they captured comments and observations made outside the formal conference, and then created an integrated report. Even today, decades later, the report seems relevant and fresh. And somehow it seems that the attendees were smarter and more prescient that attendees today.
It's up to the browser to decide if it's enabled by default at some point in the future. There is nothing in a Web API saying that it has to be forcefully enabled.

I do share the concern that security of talking to the GPUs is hard. We'll do our best. I think it's important for the Web platform to reach this capability.

Interestingly, the implementations are more diverse, because there isn't a single Angle-like library that everyone is going to use. This may mean that it's easier to find a vulnerability in a concrete browser, but harder to make an exploit that works portably.
I used the heck out of Minicom when I finally made Linux my "daily driver" back in the early 90s.

When I finally did get dialup Internet service I ended up using "dip"[1] to script the logon to the ISP's terminal server (a Xyplex, if I remember correctly). I remember that the terminal server answered for finger and showed you the usernames of the logged-on users, their logon and idle time, and their serial port numbers. I remember complaining to the ISP when I was getting busy signals dialing into the modem pool and, when I finally did get on, seeing users logged-on two or three times with multi-hour idle times.

[1] http://ibiblio.org/gferg/ldp/man/man8/dip.8.html
ClearLinux is the dark horse doing amazing things that the HN community seems to shun.
As a consumer, I disapprove. Your regulatory proposal is anti-competitive.
Very good point indeed. I'll add to that, that you can trivially examine temporary tables wheres CTEs don't have that transparency. Thanks!

Edit: I'm going to clarify this. It is a mistake to throw CTEs at a beginner but to be clear, CTEs have very important advantages over the using temp tables to hold intermediate results. It comes down to efficiency.

MSSQL only optimises within a single statement; it does not optimise across statements, so if you have a several queries comprising a single CTE, the optimiser has plenty to get its teeth into and may produce a much more efficient query plan.

Also a query plan of a complex CTE can (depending on what you're doing) end up being a straightforward pipeline where one result feeds into another into another and finally gets spat out at the end. That can be very efficient. If you use temp tables you spool intermediate results (which may be large), re-read, spool into another temp table etc. If you're working with a large data set that can use up a lot of memory, and if it's large enough that it has to spill to disk... oh dear.

So for beginners, yes, as you get more expertise, CTEs are the way to go (depending, of course, on various factors)

(Conversely, temp tables do have a definite cardinality, whereas queries in a CTE are estimates and can be badly out leading to very poor query plans. So temp tables can work to your advantage here).
Sure, but how is that different from being greedy?

That is, the Forbes piece appears to be trying to counter the argument made by Trevor Noah and other that Harvard is being greedy.
The first fat binaries on the Mac were 68k-PowerPC.

That time one could also patch 68k OS calls with PPC code and vice versa. Depending on your viewpoint, making that possible, where the 68k OS calls had about 10 different calling conventions (the ABI of some of the callbacks seemed to be chosen by what registers the arguments happened to be in in the first implementation), that was either a can of worms or a brilliant hack.
Curious about your experience on doing a CS undergrad for fun in the evenings. I work as a developer, but don't have an official CS degree. Some part of me wants it, even though I already have a BA (econ). I'm hoping to do something similar, but haven't jumped in yet. Is your undergrad online or in person? If it is online, any schools you recommend? Are you finding work + school exhausting?
Non-covid diseases still require the use of PPE. Also, PPE is much easier to produce than tests.
Distributed on-demand manufacturing is something I am following. With different types of what you might consider "No Tooling Change" manufacturing methods getting better and better, we might see the economic viability of manufacturing on demand in local manufacturing centers. These depots could make items asked of them on the spot with no upfront re-tooling costs or bulk orders needed. This could enable small businesses to have novel ideas that can easily scale across these near instantly available manufacturing nodes, avoiding hefty tooling and bulk buy costs, and also avoiding having to ship things across the globe.

Imagine you order SomeDeviceX from coolthings.com, they send the order sheet to the town's local fulfillment center in a standardized format they accept. The fulfillment center sends the files out to it's manufacturing devices, think CNC, 3D printers, laser cutters and PCB laser etchers. Some time later the device is assembled, ready to ship out to the neighbourhood.

What I like about the idea is that some items are valuable to only some people, so could never achieve economies of scale that make them viable to a business, and never be manufactured cheap enough locally to meet the market at the right price point.

The only kind of manufacturing being done in many places is large scale plants for things outside of the community, and everyone relies on products shipped in from around the globe. There is a gap missing, between expensive boutique items and mass produced cheap items, where affordable locally produced items could exist if manufacturing could be cheaper.
The article was really interesting but given it was written in 2013 I wonder how much of it is still true. They're both probably very different places to work than they were 7 years ago (for better or worse or same same but different).
Isn't that exactly what the grandparent comment said?
UK chief medical adviser states social distancing likely for “next year”
It's not that easy, luckily, if you're self-insured and have to take the service of a doctor, you can't switch just like that. It takes about a year of paper exchange with everyone involved to switch cleanly. Even then, any costs you started paying for from before will still have to be paid unless you're below a certain income bracket (or declare bankruptcy).

So if you were self-insured and broke a leg, then decided to switch back to insurance, you'd still be on the hook for the costs of the ongoing physiotherapy until it is healed back up. The insurance doesn't have to actually pay anything that happened before a switch (switching from public to public insurance or private to private doesn't have this limit, private to public and the other way round but you don't pay, your old insurance pays).
Questions. (1) What Lubuntu's stance on snap? (2) Is Lubuntu currently less focused on older hardware than it used to be?
Whatever their plan is, this type of behavior is good for Shopify carving out their growing niche serving up strongly branded products.
It actualy seems like it could! Thanks.
> It is not illegal to have a monopoly; but it is illegal to use a monopoly you have in one area to get an unfair advantage in another.

This is a very common misconception in the United States. It’s how a lot of defenders of antitrust law want antitrust law to work, but it is not how antitrust law does work.

This Supreme Court case explicitly establishes that antitrust laws can be used against companies which obtain a high market share simply by anticipating future demand and responding effectively and efficiently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alcoa
If the conductor wants you to make the consonants clear, then there will be spittle. Agreed that the deep breathing is likely just as important.
not. my hands hurt more since I got a gesture iPhone. I want the button back.
you conveniently left out number three in that you connected (1) and (2) via analogical reasoning. of course, i suspect that's what they disagree with.
At the same time, Amazon makes its corporate employees sign non-competes and actually sues former employees from time to time.
Bird: The electric scooter startup with big workplace problems
I don’t understand how your quote from Ben Bernanke is relevant. Where in the quote does Bernanke say that we’ve fully eliminated volatility? And how is he representative of “most economists?”

I’ve said in other parts of the thread that economists can, in fact, be wrong sometimes. I just find the people making completely unjustifiable assertions about the economy, while simultaneously castigating the economics profession as some cabal of out-of-touch elites who can’t be trusted, unconvincing, when I know that the vast majority of economists are simply researchers trying to understand the world and how to improve it.
The countries that have fought it most effectively do so by contact tracing: whenever someone is found to have it, test everyone they've come into contact with recently.

This works best with really intrusive surveillance of mobile phone locations :(
Whether or not the API is opt-in is orthogonal to its security hardening - this is a false dichotomy.
I find the bit about them getting permission to use the satellites at a lower altitude very strange. If the lower altitude means less debris and better service, then why did they have them at the higher altitude in the first place? My gut tells me there must be some reason that isn't quite as clear cut as it seems, but I have no idea what.
Major U.S. credit-card issuers are starting to lower customer spending limits
In what way does Amazon know the backend margins that any other store wouldn’t?

They don’t. Amazon isn’t being asked to produce a product for a vendor then taking that and selling it themselves, that would be wrong. This is Amazon doing exactly what other stores do, seeing what sells well and making their own version.
The primitive type inference is helpful, especially given the number of `val as i32` conversions that one might encounter when doing arithmetic from different crates. It however feels "magical", so I'm not sure of how I feel about it.

Do the primitive type inferences also work when comparing i32 vs &i32, or even better, &i32 vs &u64?
I do not have unlimited ram
If you ever watch the movie on the basis of sex. I feel is a clear example of why people want to go to harvard. Its a feeder to positions of power.
Note that this is not some sort of unexpected effect due to humans not behaving mathematically ideally; this is what happens when your intuitions about 1, 2 and 3 dimensions are applied to higher dimensional spaces. Consider the goal of being in the middle 50% of a random value on one dimension; you have a 50% chance. But if you have two dimensions, and you want to be in the middle 50% for both of them, it's a 25% chance. And if you have 3, it's a ~12% chance. This already is counterintuitive, but when you ramp it up to 10 dimensions, it's a ~0.01% chance. That means that if you have a thousand people, only one of them (on average) will be in the middle 50% of all of them. Even the praised end state of the air force, with 9 dimensions and a required support of 90% of individuals of each dimension, implies that only 38% of individuals will be supported overall. (Granted, human dimensions aren't wholly uncorrelated.)
One common usage is to use macros to repeat some definition for every integer type. In this case T is not a generic, but the name of the trait.
> that solves the problem for suppliers, but creates one for consumers with lower competition. Less competition, higher prices.

How so? Amazon is the one reducing competition, stopping Amazon from doing that would increase competition. That's a good thing for consumers.
That works up to a point, but test accuracy makes it risky to be too definitive in interpreting the results. For example the Abbott test appears to have a 15% false negative rate[1]. That's potentially a lot of infectious people who would incorrectly be ruled out.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/21/8387942...
https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-la...
The original author of the plugin passed the controls back to the current fork developers, so you can return to the original one as it is the same as the fork.

https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-la...
The fork will probably be deprecated soon
My experience has been that they have multiple house brands in each department, and they are different in each department.
Good question. Actually I don't have any data for that. Anecdotally many "store brand" items of things that seem commodity-like, are things that I can get the same quality as a name brand at a lower price. This is better for me, and I suspect better for most consumers in a static situation. But the market is dynamic. Does this stifle innovation of new products? Does the reduced revenue of "brand" named producers, especially smaller ones hurt? Does the price competition produce a race to the bottom that ultimately doesn't benefit consumers? I don't know. But I would say that the considerations of increased regulations of "generics" vs increased regulation of "online markets" seem to me to involve different tradeoffs.
My prior is that a similar number of units will wind up back on that market once demand picks back up. Demand might not pick back up, or Airbnb hosts might be more cautious in the future about going all in on Airbnb, but if people want Airbnbs, the market will probably provide them.
Upfront with the suppliers. Not necessarily with the customers.
Wrong way around. They want to know what monoids are. So you have to tell them that monoids are just modules of the list monad. ;-)
I don't agree that climate change is too predictable. By putting everything under a single umbrella like that, one misses out on specific issues, such as the arctic ozone layer hole, the Pacific Gulch, reef bleaching, de-oxygenation and excessive warming of ocean waters, and so on.

These haven't yet become worldwide economic disruptive events, but they certainly are worthy triggers to pay specific attention to them.
Where other distros then learn from so people not willing to go with Intel's toy project can enjoy them.
People actually cook lunch for each other all the time without making a sales pitch, this idea that nothing happens if Google isn't cutting checks is an extremely dim view of humanity.
This is incredibly common throughout the world. It is so common in fact, people have come up with a name for a "special" way to open doors to prevent this, the dutch reach.

The dutch reach is just opening your door with the opposite hand you normally would, which forces you to rotate your body and look back where a cyclist would be coming from.

In the US getting hit with a car door from someone not paying attention is appropriately called "getting doored" and is pretty far up there in things to look out for when biking!
I tried this benchmark in Chrome on 3 computers:

* 6 year old Macbook Pro i7-4980HQ, Windows 10 - 102

* 5 year old Macbook Pro i7-5557U, OS X - 100

* Threadripper 2990WX desktop - 99

So, uh, I might have some questions about this benchmark's general validity now?! - though maybe it is some evidence in favour of my vague feeling that the Threadripper sometimes doesn't feel as fast as it seems like it ought to feel.
I disagree that only deaths are reliable, fully tested patient ICU load is both easily measurable, fairly well controlled, and lower latency (roughly 2-4 weeks shorter!). I do agree that testing the dying is useful although it presents its own statistical challenges (dying with after a car accident with COVID).
>> Maybe it's reliable in the statistical sense, but not reliable in the sense that a layperson or a politician would be able to rely on it to guide decision making.

This seems to be what we're relying on in the UK. Hospital admissions for Covid show a good/relatively quick estimate of how measures are working and then a few weeks later a reflection of that trend in deaths confirms it.
"Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install."

Is quite a surprising note for an official Ubuntu flavor.
A friend of mine hosted a BBS on an Amiga in the early 90s. I was amazed by the machine's multitasking. He could actually use his computer while simultaneously hosting the BBS. (Eventually I think I got DESQview for my PC and could pull off a kinda-sorta approximation.)

The BBS software he ran was Dungeons and Dragons themed, and as I recall it mixed exploring and combat along with the mundane BBS activities-- messages, downloads, etc. I think that your experience points in the game-side ended up translating to BBS-side privileges, too. I should do some searching to see if I can dig up some details. It was unique across the various BBS's I called.
I wonder if it's possible to migrate my Gmail-powered email address while keeping my family's inboxes there. I'm interested in joining Protonmail but I can't afford to pay for everyone, nor will they understand my wish to move away from Google.

I guess it can't be done as it's at the domain level, am I right?
I think the biggest issue isn't the "copy product by leveraging data", but more like, their products play by a different set of rules.

They could copy products and launch them abiding by the same guidelines, policies and everything else.

That's not the case, and that's where the unfairness comes to play: Amazon plays on their market place by a different set of rules.

It's not only Amazon. Google, Apple, and so on. The question starts to arise, if they want such massive platforms and play on such marketplaces, they must obey their own guidelines, else they are either stripped from the playground or someone else should own the play ground.
Reasons to become Open Source nowadays
So what do we call it when an algo trading event results in the same - 'oil futures algo bug trading incident'?
Quick link to AmazonBasics

https://www.amazon.com/s?rh=p_89%3AAmazonBasics

I am happy to buy these products over generics because of the higher quality. Batteries, paper shredders, water filters, electronics accessories, household supplies, office products...
This is a really interesting article. The most fascinating part is to learn that the AF actually listened to the man and changed their policies.

This kind of thing can happen even when only measuring a single dimension, if the distribution is multimodal. If everyone is either really short or really tall, then nobody will be near the average height.
Just looked at my LLC. Has business address and agent and lists my human name as the Governor of the company. Your claim seems incorrect.
Loved the BBS era. Commo by Fred Brucker was my favorite terminal program. Zmodem for downloads.