skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, the intention of the lock down is not to prevent climate change. However, the knock on effects are clearly beneficial; a complete halting of nonessential travel, anyone who can work from home working from home, a lot of business and industry shut down. In effect it is at or beyond the upper bound on what personal choice could achieve.

All of that and it basically sets the rate of increase back a decade or so.

To stop burning fossil fuels requires huge advances in energy storage (grid scale batteries, hydrogen / ammonia, thermal storage), energy production (breakthrough in nuclear fusion, more efficient solar) or massive political changes (conventional nuclear, carbon taxes). Probably a combination of all 3.
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Congratulations @antirez and the team! Can't wait to play with it.
I needed some time to think about your point. :)

I'm not sure I understand the distinction. Why couldn't the parser maintaining that pool? If the two different projects (which I assume translates into two different object files or DLL's) belong in the same process, it's pretty straightforward for the parser to keep a singleton pool somewhere. If the two projects are in different processes, then it's probably better in terms of security to disallow sharing of that memory - and virtual memory spaces should abstract the space efficiency issues well enough for those purposes.
The first type you mentioned is a rare gem that should be treasured.
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In some cases, it’s because the cost of letting them go and hiring+training another individual is daunting. Both monetarily and in time. You also don’t know if the new hire will necessarily be better. There’s also other factors like firing someone doesn’t necessarily get you back a headcount immediately. Visa caps also play into this because for certain roles we legitimately could not find enough candidates locally, so letting someone go means you couldn’t find someone till the following year.

I’ve been in this situation where I’ve had to convince my managers that the teams I managed would be better served without certain individuals and I’d rather hire someone new. Even when the entire management chain agreed, it came down to the issues above.
There is none and will never be. Cryptocurrencies are Rube Goldberg machines; interesting to observe but functionally useless. Anyone who says otherwise is ideologically blind.
NYC isn't an example of a human-oriented city. The roads are huge, full of loud traffic, and the cars have priority. Constant sirens and horns in Manhattan, and not much better elsewhere.

I'm not sure there is an example of a big, dense human-oriented city, but the closest examples (places like Venice, Ghent, Copenhagen) are wonderful places that have a completely different feel to a city like London or NYC.

I don't know how much of that is due to the size difference, but in London on the days where the city gets shut to traffic, it feels a much more welcoming, relaxing and pleasant place. The lack of constant car sounds and being able to walk where you want makes a huge difference in livability. It feels closer to when I used to live more rural.
Honestly, not much has changed. The primary use cases continue to be things like robotics, playing games, finance etc. I’m interested in RL academically from a computational neuroscience standpoint (using RL to model cognition) but also as applied toward healthcare problems.

However, I don’t think the current limited use of RL is a permanent situation just that the most exciting uses of RL are extremely difficult problems that involve long-time horizons and planning. For example, RL could be used to automatically prove mathematical theorems which would be amazing. But it’s a really hard problem for various reasons. Still a lot of progress to be made.
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When they took that away it affected who I communicate with.
Shouldn't parents be doing this? If they're not, then why did they have a kid? The robot seems well designed, inoffensive, and the company's focus is well intentioned, but I can't help thinking that this represents a complete societal failure on so many levels.
not everyone has or wants friends and loved ones. time spent alone would increase happiness too.
Number of people is what ultimately matters. The amount of CO2 per capita tends towards the same ballpark. Somewhere between 5-10 t/year/capita [0].

US, alas, is at 16t/year, though decreasing. Overall contribution: 330M * 16 = 5B t/year.

Now let's watch how the 6 billion people that did not exist circa 1900 catch up in emissions with the high energy regimen that characterizes 'western middle class' lifestyle. Let's lowball at 5t/year/capita. Overall contribution: 6000M * 5 = 30B t/year. Earth as we know it will not survive that.

And that's before we factor in that population is still booming, both globally and, through global migration, in US.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-by-world...
>They don't need months or years of runway.

Obviously they do if they're demanding bailouts. That's three times in the last 20 years that the federal government has had to bail out "too big to fail" businesses... airlines in 2001, banks/automakers in 2008, and everything in 2020.

Like mbrameld said, the only reason they don't have runway is because the government will bail them out.
I've had similar issues trying to use the Windows app and Apple app.
Meetings can be as long as you'd like. No limit with the selfhosted version.

I guess DO is suggested 4gb ram to upsell and ensure good performance but official reqirements are 1gb. Though people on HN have posted that it's not all that resource hungry.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22760850
> They find a 30% collapse in vacancy postings, reflecting a massive decline in companies’ demand for workers.

It’s not clear how many will be able to return after lockdown, but this piece argues that those who won’t be able to return to old jobs will struggle to find new ones given the decreased demand in labor.

The situation I fear is that communities open back up but business activity remains low due to fear around viral contraction. If business is open but customers aren’t coming in, the workers who returned to those jobs might not have them for too long.
GitHub doesn't.
Unity was not a fork but a new project, so use a bit of logic and less emotion and honestly answer this "Who forked GNOME2 and GNOME3 ? " because you have a ton of GNOME forks because but if Canonical does it's own DE is evil but if someone forks MAte,Elementary,Cinemon etc is cool.

I think unless Canonical removed a lot of RedHat tech from Debian and replaced it with their own then you are just complaining that Debian is not a big fan of RH tech.
Service process and out of process compositing lands in Monado
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If your friends are lying to you then that's not a message problem.

Plus it's silly, most mark the message as changed and some have an audit trail like Slack.

I'm not sure what scenario this plays out in?
If there is any evidence for your accusation, you should be able to link it. Do you have any?
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We use it to crash our servers on larger customers, by using it to cache all our user entities, pull all of them out at runtime filter them in PHP then stampede ourselves when we clear the cache
The fact that it's a consensus does not mean that it's not hysterical.

How can anyone have faith in these governments/organizations after we just watched this global failure to deal with covid?
He has an equally impressive record of non-investment failures as well: the war in Yemen, assassinating Khashoggi, etc. And I agree that Occam's Razor argues for the latter.
Isn't MVC a pattern for UI layers?

I'm not sure redis, a database, is relevant.
Now you're really just making claims about implementation details. That doesn't make one concept more "fundamental" or "flexible" than the other, while "interesting" is just a subjective judgement.
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The coolest thing I ever saw in the wild, a guy I once worked with wanted to transfer a directory of files from my machine to his (and maybe show off a little.)

This was long enough ago that I didn't know quite how to proceed (time before rsync, scp...? Nah...) so he asked if he could do it and I let him have the keyboard.

He tar'd (with z) the dir, piped the output of tar to ssh, with a remote command to cat it out there through tar again, all in one CLI line. Blew my mind at the time. UNIX philo FTW.
But when the bash scripts and pipes break, it’s easier to isolate the broken component vs grepping through the systemd monorepo.
The business-side of things.

Verticals like retail or part of the business that center on customer interaction. Marketing. Understanding funnels etc. Business development. Understanding the metagame that is being played.

The people side of things. Organizing and managing workforces or fleets. Understanding carrots and sticks. Understanding how things can fail in the field and how to quickly organize and execute workarounds. Physical world ops instead of devops.
That's a really interesting link.

From the table there, for example, in Townsville in summer, with 11% of your body exposed, it takes just 6 minutes to synthesis 1000 IU of vitamin D.

A fair-skinned female friend who studied at James Cook University used to complain she got sunburnt walking between classes... So DWG, if you read this, apologies for telling you off for exaggerating!
"It's not my fault I failed the exam, I didn't study!"
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> So, 10X.

No, that's not how inflation works.
C19 impact on aqua farming oysters
You cite audible concerns which I don’t share. Freedom of movement is my priority now. You don’t get that with shared transport.
Your #3 might be the real key to all this.

I rarely apply for a job cold. I've nearly always had some point of networking somewhere.

Even for the job I have now, for which I did just send in a resumé and an application cold, I have some very specific key words on my resumé that the hiring manager recognized and then started asking if I knew person x and person y and so on and we discovered that we have a bunch of prior colleagues in common, which also made me extremely useful to the organization in ways they don't advertise (I already knew this going into the interview, as I did my research).

Finding a job is very much about market segment, branding, and networking. If you're "just another web dev" and have no other meaningful skills and no friends, then maybe finding work after 40 is hard -- I wouldn't really know. If you're a C++ guru with an MS, an embedded dev, a specwar comms tech, etc, you get really valuable to some people because you've got such a broad set of experiences, and they don't give a rat's ass how old you are as long as you can still hobble in to work some days.

And sometimes they'll hire you for your network as well, which isn't all bad either.
Ha! The new infrastructure of cloud services was supposed to be easier. But it too has gotten complex, with managing VMs, app updates, OS updates, networking issues, load balancing etc.

All to get the often-vapor feature of 'scalability'. And it seems believable because these frameworks are so heavy, they run like slugs and need to scale almost immediately.

{old guy rant} In the old days, we got 1200 queries per second from our stock quote server, on a pathetic single-processor server with 12MB RAM. Didn't need to scale, not for 5 years.
Hmm, sort of. Let's look at mortgages.

If I want to buy a house without a mortgage (or with a limited, affordable mortgage), I still need to be able to outbid other buyers who might have no qualms about taking on an unaffordable debt. So even if I'm just making an individual decision for myself not to go into debt, I'm severely influenced by the behaviour of other members in society, and how much banks are willing to lend to them.
I guess I don't want to be using those other operating systems, then!
A better way to compare is excess deaths over seasonal average (or last year's seasonal statistic) per million. That does not tell you exactly how many died of covid-19, but is a more useful comparison.
Plenty of companies are building boring new PHP sites on Magento and making money without being SPAs. At least here in the Midwest, I've noticed quite a few non-tech companies moving their SPA sites away from being SPAs because it was the wrong technology choice for what the site does.
w.r.t "Uber is an app together with some driver administration" : this is true, but taxi drivers (even highly organized ones, such as taxi companies that have employees for drivers) are intrinsically incapable of producing something like the Uber app and operating it at scale.
Uber did bring something to the taxi industry that it never had.
website, or site, are the words you are looking for.

Which also lack a decent Unicode symbol despite being a word used in plain text. ️
Do you think emissions are increasing in an exponential manner or a linear manner?
I didn't argue that science is getting worse in general and that nothing valuable is being done now, and that's not what I believe. I could see how someone could infer the former from the number of authors per paper increasing and me thinking that papers with many authors tend to be worse. My experience, at I said, could be field specific. (I work in fluid dynamics.) My view is more that science has never been particularly well done as a whole, though some recent things like the reproducibility crisis in social science and verification and validation in engineering have been promising.

That some projects require a large amount of expertise that no single person is likely to have is true. But there are disadvantages to having more authors as well, e.g., "design by committee" immediately comes to mind. And I don't think a majority of current projects require expertise that no individual could have to an extent that would explain why collaboration is expected in science. Ultimately I think a mix of the two would be ideal for science in general, with a larger contribution from individuals than is seen at present.

Also: If my example is a shallow anecdote than your CERN example is as well. I don't have hard data on any of this and you didn't mention any either. I'd be happy to look at any hard data that exists, but I don't know if there is any.
I think this is lawyer consultation time.

My biggest concern would be that if it has brand recognition there is value there and if there is value ... it is likely that someone might feel they still own it, and maybe only after you get some success.

I like the idea of asking but asking the right person might be more of a confusing thing depending on whomever was involved in the past endeavor. Someone might ok it... but are they the right someone?
Workers lived and worked at 2 factories for a month to make PPE materials
The loans are forgiveable if used for salaries and rent and interest on existing debt, as long as you hire back or keep 90% of your staff at 90% of wages.

So any company can say that they used 100% of the money to pay for the approved things for 8 weeks, and that amount of money is forgiven.

Most of the loan is like free money to most companies.
Not sure about other DBs, but you can set a record TTL in DynamoDB as well.
And somehow, liquor stores and recreational weed dispensaries are considered "essential" while gyms and many productive small businesses are not.

Are we enjoying life too much to be busy?

(Before this is taken as general anti-drug hate, plz check username -- I'm pointing out what I see as a weird set of seemingly hypocritical priorities in a time of pandemic, not telling you that you can never have your delicious soma.)
I use it as a general cache, especially for data that I know hitting the database will be expensive. I also use it for pubsub.
All of which is true, but it's too early to distinguish permanent damage from temporary inconvenience. There will be elements of both, and at the moment it's impossible to tell them apart.

We won't know the true picture until six months after the last significant outbreak. If we're lucky and there's no recurrence we'll have a clearer picture heading into winter.

If we're not and there is, there will be more damage and we won't be able to see the final picture until late next year.
Pakistan is putting tens of thousands of people to work (who would otherwise have no job now) planting billions of trees. My hope is that other governments will follow similar initiatives, if covid-19 lasts a few months (it looks like it is not going away anytime soon)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/pakistan-virus-idled-...
There's the UV4L project that will let the Pi connect to Jitsi Meet.

https://www.linux-projects.org/uv4l/tutorials/jitsi-meet/

Not sure if there's a way to hook it up to Zoom.
Let’s suppose unmitigated COVID-19 kills 1 in x people over the next 2 years. The specifics matter a lot, but it’s still over a relatively short period.

Unmitigated climate change on the other hand may kill say far less than that per year, but it doesn’t simply go away. People in 2120 are still going to be dealing in with the effects. Covid is like a car crash it’s obvious, but climate change is like obesity it’s kills in a great many ways not just storms but also things like migration of tropical diseases.

The good news, is we have already done much to mitigate both.
> The only remaining question marks are around what happens with classic Hangouts, and what additional features is Chat going to get that make it more consumer-oriented before it replaces Hangouts in Gmail.

Google is killing off Hangouts slowly and surely. Over time it will start showing its age so bad, that people will move on.

I loved the Hangouts Dialer integration. Had to replace it with Voice.

I loved the Hangouts/Voice - GMail integration where I could send/receive texts from within GMail. Had to replace it with Voice.

Before I could do most tasks from within GMail. Now I HAVE to use atleast 3 different apps that don't talk to each other.

The competition on the other hand is going the opposite direction with great integrations in place.

> For one thing, you can't purchase Meet by itself -- it's an entitlement within G Suite

Have been using Meet ever since it came out.

Free/personal tier users could always join a Meet (not create one).

Before this announcement, Meet could only be hosted by a G Suite customer

> the Meet announcement this week explaining availability for "all users", you should see it as a side-effect of the business product's maturity, not as a consumer-first offering.

It's a knee jerk reaction to Zoom.

Everyone on this planet has a GMail account and if Google understood what customers want, Meet would have had Zoom for lunch.

Today, anyone who works remotely and is not tied into Teams, have heard of Zoom.

Very few, including GMail users, know about Meet.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030326

Meet missed a big - perhaps once in a decade opportunity.

Users already have Zoom on their phone and computers. There is 0 reason to use Meet if they were not already.
Telegram Caves to US Regulators: Delays Blockchain Launch, Offers Return $1.2B
Mostly twitter, and my company's blog.
well, that company is going into entrenched businesses, so of course the incumbents are going to defend themselves and not just go away..
Beats me how I write a comment about how a text helps understanding at the expense precision, and everyone attacks me how it wasn't even precise.
Oof, that's an increase over previous estimates of R0.
A growing underclass isn't paid enough to get basics of life like healthcare or being consistently fed - it's beyond not being able to participate, for many to even exist is backsliding.
But if you asked those people to spread out, wouldn't they use more resources? Longer distances to transport goods, more land to live on, less opportunities to walk or use mass transit, etc.
I loved screen in the 90's, but many of us prefer tmux these days.
What we need is rewrite the law to reward saving instead of penalize savings. In the US, there is no incentive to save, because it got penalize first by inflation, then you happen to have a capital gain, dividend or interest on your savings, you get tax again. However, if you get into debt like a mortgage, which lock you in for 30 or more years, you get to deduct your mortgage interest. Property tax is deductible as well.
Yeah, but the point is we are still in the deep with the pandemic. How high will it go once we come out the otherside??
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I think making a list of the files to be copied and their hashes, then a list of files that were copied and their hashes, then comparing the 2 lists should provide an even quicker way to validate. Or even hashing the entire source and destination (hash of the list of hashes) and providing both values to the user to visually compare.

As far as I can tell the method described in the article doesn't really validate the backups in any way, just provides some statistics that will fail in very plausible ways.

And of course, if the data is important to you and there are special circumstances that could affect the process, nothing beats an actual restore test.
The promise of machinery, computers, automation, and robots was that humans could stop working so hard and so many hours. Instead productivity, hours worked, and profits made have skyrocketed, while free time and worker compensation have remained stagnant.

If everyone cut their hours in half the only thing that would happen is growth would slow a little bit and billionaires would make a little less money. If people are going hungry, that's not a problem of productivity. There is more than enough money in most Western countries to make sure that doesn't happen. The only problem is how that money is distributed.
I think we’re starting to have two conversations in parallel, so I’ll do my best to keep this straight.

It appears that there are two models; stocks on the blockchain, and tokens as item of utility.

Stocks on the blockchain makes sense technically, especially for investing in risky non-crypto small companies. Tiny use case, but reasonable.

I’m super dubious about paying with the crypto equivalent of stocks for purely social reasons; it introduces a lot of exchange risk and negotiation into the process of purchasing goods. One of the reasons money is good is that it creates a common unit of account; I don’t need to find a barista that’s interested in whatever stock I’ve got in order to buy coffee. Sure; I could sell or exchange that stock for something my barista wants, probably money, but the value to the consumers in question is getting pretty thin.

I will say though that stock markets are probably the only model I’ve seen that fits cleanly into the blockchain model; stock trades pretty much stay in the stock exchange itself, eliminating the oracle problem. If blockchain latency could get lowered significantly, I wouldn’t be surprised to see stock markets on the blockchain.

What I see much more of is the “token as utility” scheme. This is usually a blockchain startup offering some sort of token that has a planned utility once the company is operational. Kodak’s coin is on the top of my mind; the plan was that you could use the coins to license work on the chain and pay photographers.

These utility coins always seem super shady to me, and the justifications on why the utility coin should have utility (and thus value) border somewhere between nonsense and insanity.
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