skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will never be able to outrun bad software with good hardware. At best it's a rat race where devs target the n Percebtile machine and performance is effectively auction priced to buy an above "average" machine.

Just say No to bad software, starting with web ads.
Additionally given the expectation of ventilator shortages these hospitals have likely been preferentially providing ventilators to the sickest patients. Mortality in other areas where shortages don't exist will likely be lower.
Once again, Stripe innovates in the dev docs space. This is a masterclass on what excellent documentation should look like.
The answer is applicable. LiveView is implemented using Phoenix Channels.
> Being able to match big core i7s in some benchmarks single threaded is to a large extent something that Intel's own low power chips can also do, at least burstily.

You're not wrong. In general, it's true that a microbenchmark amplifies the Apple A13's strengths due to power limits. The assumption I make is that microbenchmarks indicate the true peak performance of Apple's architecture, and as power limits become a smaller constraint when Apple uses its chips in laptops and desktops they will make available that performance in a more sustained way.

But even low power Intels don't compare that favourably. Intel's new i7 10510U delivers very nice single core performance [1]. But it's worth noting that 1) that still does not quite match the A13's burst performance 2) that chip is still rated for a power profile much larger than the A13's and 3) as always in these discussions - Intel's "TDP" is a marketing term not a power limit. At high turbos the chip is permitted to consume quite a bit more power than the 15W it's rated for.

This particular Intel chip boosts to 4.90GHz. For Apple chips, even stuff like clockspeeds are a matter of conjecture, but Wikichip without a source claims that the A13 tops out at 2.65GHz [2] which if true indicates a lot more thermal and frequency headroom in bigger form factors.

I just benchmarked my MacBook Pro+Safari in Jetstream 2.0 [3] - not a microbenchmark - and it scored nearly 145 compared to the nearly 130 the iPhone 11 scores [4]. That's with a "45W TDP" Core i7 8850H topping out at 4.3GHz. It's hard to benchmark iPhones well, but all evidence points to the fact that they are actually really fast.

[1]: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...

[2]: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apple/ax/a13 - worth noting that high-end Qualcomm SoCs also operate at comparable frequencies.

[3]: https://browserbench.org/JetStream/

[4]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...
I disagree. Consider it the other way - it is common wisdom to keep broad communications simple enough for a 5 year old to understand. It follows that even marketing speak needs to be so simple that 5 year olds (us, engineers) can understand. Especially so when we are the fortunate users.
Most economists also thought we had banished volatility, until 2008 happened.

I wouldn’t put too much trust in that expert class given their track record.
Before Nobels: Gifts to & from rich patrons were early science’s currency (2016)
Afaik, it uses Chromium's sandboxing?

That said, safety is about much more than just sandboxing.
Sorry, let me be clear: by "smart people" I mean economists who have spent their lives studying monetary and fiscal policy and analyzing how it can be used to make the world a better place.

Not sure why the onus is on me to be "reasonable" in my response when we all agree that the person I was replying to was making an entirely unreasonable assertion.
Bank of Japan weighs unlimited government bond buying
Yes I would, because I know she wishes to at least try. The point is that you can't decide for others - unfortunately the socialized healthcare of today is making this a public policy question, which is very wrong.
Yup. Costco’s Kirkland brand is another example.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1006 - "likely the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history." Observed in 1006 AD "across the modern day countries of China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, and the continent of Europe, and possibly recorded in North American petroglyphs."
Ventilator Companies Finally Make the Life Saving Devices Easier to Repair
> The old macbooks were great with the maglock power lead not pulling them off the desk. I believe new ones have downgraded the connector?

I have been using this Magnetic USB C Adapter and am very happy with it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0816PV1YZ/
> Why not just do a PCI pass through (…)?

Because we're talking about remote desktop over low bandwidth connections. If push comes to shove you can use Xpra over dial-up.

Of course the more elegant solution then is to use some virtio based graphics pass-through driver doing all that, without running MIT-SHM screen grabber X11 clients shoving around frames. I want less kludges, not more.
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I have to be honest, I'm not sure how to respond. The mean part of me wants to call you out for being stupid, the angry part for using a strawman, the compassionate part wants to dig in and fix your misunderstanding, the wise part wants to smile, shake my head, and ignore it. So, as usual, I go with the meta part of me and just describe the other parts and I'll let you pick.
Your app has a false positive if run on a previously (but no longer) jailbroken device.
When the economy picks up and people start apartment hunting again, I suspect they'll also start booking Airbnbs again.
The obsession with this phone never ceases to amaze me.
I'm really trying to get it but I think there's very vocal minority discussing this: american iphone fans.

I would never imagine buying a 64GB non-expandable phone with a single camera and such absurd screen for 480€ in 2020. New 128GB+sd slot s10e is around 450€ and that did small form factor _right_.

For a tech forum the iphone se obsession just seems so alien to the point where it all feels like astroturfing.
Books are a huge nightmare. Especially older books - search results are completely flooded and dominated by poor-quality fly-by-night print-on-demand publishing "companies" that take bad OCRs or even worse and reprint them. Making matters worse, reviews for different editions (including electronic editions!), publishers, and translations are all conflated!

This makes it impossible to ascertain anything about the quality and nature of the book you are actually buying - you might read ten reviews complaining about the translation, only none of them are actually about the translation you're looking at - you have no way of knowing unless they happen to mention it in the review you're looking at. You might read many reviews about very poor binding - but is it from the publisher you're looking at? No clue!

This isn't even getting onto the counterfeit issue you mention.
> I'm not seeing how this helps solve the API stability problem faced by ordinary kernel modules.

I'm not entirely certain, but my impression is that EBPF has more limited capabilities, and so the API can be kept stable more easily. Of course that also means that you cannot do everything in EBPF that you can do in ordinary C modules.

Hence my questions elsewhere in the discussions if you could write device drivers in EBPF. If yes, that might enable much easier when the toolchain eventually matures. If not, much is explained.
You do know that the emmc on a Odroid is not soldered, right ? You can remove it easily with your hands.
younger population with long-term lung problems = higher medical costs?
Every retail store does this.
Python 2 Is Dead
> In twenty years, you may need to plan out a route in advance to be sure of finding an open gasoline station. Heating oil will last longer.

Huh, why? In many countries you're not allowed build new homes with oil heating systems, and there are plenty of government scheme to get rid of existing examples. And of course in highly urbanized countries heating oil barely exists anyway (it hasn't made sense for a long time if mains gas is available).
Rechecked the page: currently data up to 20th April, 22th of April page updated:

June 01, 2020 projection: 67,444 (48,058-122,203)

Today's number of deaths in the U.S., according to worldometers: 47,808. Today is April 23.
Thanks for this, I'll be keeping an eye on it.

I'm sure you're looking at the idea, but it would be nice to be able to add drop downs to quickly filter by role/location/sector/seniority.
Absolutely BEGGING you to figure out the difference between the Fed and the Treasury.
The highlights: 720mA on load, eMMC support and not being based on a broadcom SoC. I am tempted to get one.

The raspberry pi was that way regarding power consumption in the beginning, but it uses way too much power these days. It also has an infamously slow and unreliable sdcard interface.
Many Amazon sellers only sell on Amazon, or have a large majority of their business sales there. This is equivalent to having insight to almost your entire business.

Most brands at Walmart and other stores are sold many other places.
Thanks for saying this. Since 3 others are criticizing you for the same reasons I'll just reply directly to you.

You can take smt88's reply as language criticism or moral criticism. The use of !? in two out of four paragraphs in econcon's post certainly implies excitement, and choosing only to focus on the "positive silver linings" certainly sends a particular message.

I'm sure there's a way to talk sensibly about this very cynical speculation of what might happen to society in a pandemic like this, but econcon's way of phrasing it is not the way. If the language of a post sends a certain message about the underlying morals of the post, I see no reason not to start criticizing that.
We’re Testing the Wrong People
I mean, I think the key difference is that HTTPS certs are actually useful.
A fun exercise would be compiling the Heartbleed version of OpenSSL into WASM.

Exploits can escape the sandbox, via functions exported from WASM that change their behaviour due to internal memory corruption, or callbacks that get called with unexpected parameters from the WASM code due to the internal memory corruption that changed the execution logic.

For example, a security system that would grant higher credentials than it was supposed to.
Internet performance during the Covid-19 emergency
Because for any individual seller there’s a heavy short/medium term advantage to using the marketplace in the form of dramatically increased reach and simplified logistics.
This. The problem is that it is fairly easy to add another layer of protection, but nearly impossible to remove or replace it later.
Taming EKS for Machine Learning on a Budget
Except the field of economics is filled with Dunning Kruger’s, despite years and years of education.

I am yet to find a macro economist that is sensible and intelligent.
I don't know the answers to your questions, but one thing I do know is that OOP maximums have exceptions and are not absolute. So please don't treat them as a 'maximum level of risk' or something like that. The insurance company can still screw you over, even if you do have an OOP maximum.
The article really highlights that there's likely not one single explanation for sex - increasing diversity, decreasing diversity through gene repairs. Same-sex behaviors potentially being something not just even worth being selected against, highlighting the "good enough" nature of natural selection where not everything needs a reason. A good read on the complexity behind explaining phenomena with natural selection - billions of years or random chance + selection pressures has no requirement to result in clean, neat, and easy explanations for complex phenomena.
This hasn't been true for years (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis)
> Ebay has seller reviews, and I know who the seller actually is.

So does Amazon, when fulfilled by the seller, which many are. They're exactly the same in this regard.
Betelgeuse is a massive star within our galaxy that's relatively close, at 642 light years away. Scientists believe it'll go supernova relatively soon, within 100,000 years.

When it does go supernova, it could be as bright as the moon and still visible during the day.

This video shows what that might look like https://youtu.be/hJPVuSNFxlY?t=10
The effect, whether large or small, will be much greater to Medicare than Social Security. Nursing homes residents are far more exposed than the general retired population.
Anton Petrov has pretty decent coverage of this on his YouTube channel[1].

This type of supernova has been theorized, although to my knowledge not previously observed (due to the mechanics, about 50% of the energy is radiated as visible light, which is why they're so exceptionally bright).

We do have a star near us that is theorized to have undergone a pulsational pair instability supernova in the 19th century: Eta Carinae.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjHs2L4kqw
Way down in the article, it describes some data that was not included in its analysis but nevertheless is quite interesting, where several people in a restaurant were infected by one other patron.

This is something straight out of a TV crime show:

> As the authors note, the restaurant in question was air-conditioned on the date in question. Using video footage, they were able to chart the position of every diner in the restaurant, and then map their subsequent infection status in relation to both the single infected individual known to be present at the time and the air conditioning system’s outgoing and intake streams. If the primary transmission mode of COVID-19 were by small, sub-Flüggian airborne particles, the presence of the forced air convection might have made the environment safer (especially since “smear samples from the air conditioner [itself] were all [COVID-19] nucleotide negative”). But the researchers instead found evidence for the opposite: “The key factor for infection was the direction of the airflow,” with downstream individuals being most at risk—a result consistent with the thesis that COVID-19 is transmitted primarily through the ballistic transmission of large respiratory droplets.

I could easily imagine that having been a key insight in an episode of "Bones" or "Elementary".

(If you are looking for something good to binge watch during COVID "stay at home", I recommend "Elementary", currently on Hulu and CBS All Access. It's a Sherlock Holmes set in modern times series. They did a really good job of taking many characters and plots from the original stories and adapting them in such a way that if you read the stories you will recognize them and perhaps even think you know what is going to happen--but they have changed just enough that the ending will still surprise you but also be eminently reasonable in hindsight. The stories that aren't obviously based on any particular original are equally good).
I have no idea why you're being downvoted; anybody should be able to understand that the Fed is independent (from the "government" in the typical sense of the word, but especially from private interests) by simply googling it. Do these conspiracy theorists really believe the Fed is secretly controlled by a cabal of private banks or something?
We're rapidly adding more sources. I'm based in Canada myself so I'll work on getting some more options for you. We'd love to have your company post their openings on the site as well
> I sometimes wonder if we are collectively too immature to not need some "nannying"

The argument against government isn't that we have our shit together and don't need supervision, it's that the government doesn't have its shit together and is unfit to supervise, or that it will rapidly become unfit once a position of power is created and inevitably attracts those most interested in exploiting it.

Everything you've posted supports the latter argument: the Food Standards Agency wants in on the dragnet surveillance apparatus, which is not their job, while they can't even ensure basic traceability (as evidenced by your link), which is their job? Not only are they unfit to be a "nanny," they sound like outright crooks!
i'm not disagreeing with you but, replace "this phone" with "any iPhone" or "any Mac" over the course of post-OS X Apple history.
I think OP is refering to snap being the default application install in the gui now rather than apt.
It is meaningless, because they accept corporate identities, and it is trivial to create shell corporations with meaningless names, like Americans For Good Stuff And Against Bad Stuff.
The first SE and the 5C were redesigned models. This version is unique in that it is not unique. Its a goddam rebrand of the iphone 8 sold at prices cheaper than any of the iphones ever.
5c was priced $649 for a 64 GB unlocked version.
Apparently everyone hates snap, while I hate Gnome, especially purple Gnome with oversized windows titles and borders
Sweden’s approach is an optimization of how to respond to the epidemic and how to respond to the general life disruption.

The optimal response to the epidemic is everyone stays in their house for 1 month with no human contact. In that scenario, the virus is stopped and everyone dies because no one works the food chain, etc.

The world’s current response is heavily weighed towards optimizing the response toward the epidemic, but the potentially fatal assumption to this approach is that a vaccine will soon be developed. If a vaccine is not soon developed, the same amount of people will still get sick, people will still die, but additional people will die due to life disruption.
Amazon first solved the Discovery problem, and they went and solved distribution, but somehow Discovery was completely lost after they solved Distribution.

You cant make distribution work without huge selection and volume. And selection is the enemy of discovery. It is a hard balance.
Yes, that is on the product road map for sure. Thanks for your feedback and for caring!
I'm not saying it isn't good as a quick fix temporary measure, but over here in Belgium this has been consistently used to pretty up the cycling path numbers while doing nothing.

We even invented "cyclist suggestion paths" ("fietssuggestiestroken" colloquially referred to as "paths of shame" (schaamstroken) [1]), which are not cycling lanes as they explicitly allow cars to ride on them, but just a color painted onto the right hand side of the car lane to advice cyclists not to ride side-by-side (which is their right within inner-city limits) but ride on the narrow painted strip behind each other, So this is an anti-cycling measure, and it still is counted as "cycling infrastructure".

[1] https://fietsbult.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/moscou7c.jpg
There's some irony in you refusing to engage with thought terminating cliches when your original post that kicked this sub-thread off was "Yes. But liars, cranks and con artists should be oppressed."
A lot of knee jerk responses in this thread.

Can anyone elaborate why exactly allowing demonstrably harmful and malicious lies during a major health emergency is a good thing on its own merits?
I don't think masks filter the kind of pollution that is really harmful (fumes, not particles).
This is why Chrome and Firefox changed it to a grey padlock instead of a green one

https://blog.chromium.org/2018/05/evolving-chromes-security-...
Hull: A language that stores it's state to the file system
My first computer was a 386 SX, which came with a modem, but I didn't know what that was at the time. I was 12 or so, and didn't know computers could talk to each other over the phone line. I discovered Telix while dorking around in DOS, but it made no sense to me.

Some time later, I was talking to the guy at Radio Shack (!) and I mentioned this mysterious program. He knowingly nodded, said "plug one end of this cord into your wall jack, the other into the back of your PC, then type the following command..."

Cut to a year later, I'm running a BBS out of my bedroom, learning to write door games, and scripting for MUDs. I can draw a pretty straight line between Telix and my future career (even though Terminate was cooler).
Based on how much Amazon will grow during this pandemic, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are cut up by government to reduce their power to destroy any competitor.
This is more like, you should. Because the SD interface sucks.
Amazon makes life so hard for their suppliers it doesn't even surprise me. I once shipped a box of 10 laptops to sell on FBA (retail value ~$10k) and UPS showed the box as delivered, Amazon checked in the units and showed them available for sale on the website. Then 24 hours later all of them got removed saying I sent the inaccurate quantity in the box and none where now available for sale. The laptops disappeared and I had to do an insurance claim with UPS. Amazon's support was horrible and made me never want to sell with them again. Lots of stories like mine on the Amazon subreddit.
We're talking in circles. No one disputes that CDNs are good and expert users of WordPress are capable of making it not shit the bed. The point is that WP cannot be left unmanaged by novices, which means it should not be used in many situations in which it is currently used. Static sites have a higher floor and so are better suited to non-expert use.
Sorry, but it's at this point in the thread that I realize that talking to tech bros on hacker news about monetary policy is actually the seventh circle of hell. Glhf.

Your claim, to be clear, is that inflation is occurring, but the BLS is hiding it, so that the Fed can hit their targets easier? Why stop there-maybe the board of governors also brings Beyonce in during their closed meetings for private concerts, and pays for them with t-bills.
Code can definitely be art - complete with imitations and people taking advantage of the disappearance to claim authorship.
Researchers Turn AMD Radeon GPU into a Radio Transmitter to Steal Data
I think this is a marvellous idea. Environment and climate change is definitely something many of us would want to be able to affect in our daily jobs.

On a more universal level, a service like this, not just for climate work, but in more general terms helping people find a position matching their passion would do a great service to the world [1].

Frankly, a lot of us have just wound up in our current positions. If that position happens to be our vocation, it's probably just a happy accident, or then that specific field was very precise, and finding a position matching the passion was easy. In general case, it's not that easy to match these two, due to the work and timing required.

The problem is, a lot of people are doing jobs they are not the best match from the point of view of the larger community. They might be good and efficient at their jobs, but if they don't know the full power of their positions, and don't have the passion to push for the change, in the limits of their positions, they might not be the best people for that job.

To make the case even more problematic, a lot of positions, ones that people would consider as meaningless, especially in public sector, but also related to environment, actually could offer a lot of power in the right hands, with proper passion.

World is filled with wasted opportunities, but a service like this could help remedy some of the pain points.

That being said, like mentioned in a comment by
mlthoughts2018 [2], this is not an easy problem to solve, given for one that positions might not match their descriptions.

But things have to start somewhere, and I think this is a great start.

[1] As a side note, IMHO, I'd like to think this mismatch between a passion and a position being the missing puzzle piece for making things such as public sector competitive over private sector.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955566
Zoom Fatigue Is Real
Good to see that they are on a positive stream with their commitment to open sourcing their apps.

Really looking forward to when Proton has near parity with the GSuite basics.
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The flip side is that sometimes a product within the scope of your tech does not exist yet.

Sometimes, for some products, you have to build.
Prioritizing simplicity improves performance and reliability