skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his claim to be a beneficial 'allocator of capital' is bogus. He tends to invest in established exploitative companies. His investments have been made on an almost exclusive basis of growing wealth, which in the end is a very sterile end to aim for.

> I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty.

— Buffett, quoted in Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

I agree he's led a modest life. I am somewhat dubious about his claims to be a philanthropist. I don't see exploiting the world (Buffett & Gates) necessarily redeemed by later posing as a philanthropist.

None of this is meant as a critique of capitalism. Just a critique of the kind of sterile, exploitative capitalism that Buffett practises, that he then tries to dress up as philanthropy. "It's ok if I give away all my money at the end" - well he can't take it with him can he? And at 89, he still hasn't given most of it away anyway.

Finally, here's a link to a much more detailed criticism of Buffett, if you're interested:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/special-investigat...
SSH bastions and VPN are two standard ways to allow external clients access into an internal network, meaning salt is never exposed publicly.

I read this as a guideline that the salt master must not be exposed to the internet. Albeit could be better worded for a developer audience who doesn't understand bastions or VPN well.
You get 3 month of mandatory notice period (if you had a "CDI" which is permanent employment)
You get 1w/y on top of that.
I wouldn't get too spun up by an opinion piece designed to spin you up. But, since you asked:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...
> But the rule of thumb of good optimization (something something Jensen inequality) is that all your objectives must be growing all the time so you just have to be sure you are not letting something regress. It's called striking a balance. Then all objectives will grow following a S-curve simultaneously.

Does this assume no cost for context switching?

When I have tried to juggle several objectives in my life, I often have regressions in the ones I don't focus on at the time. For example, after focusing on working out for a while, I may lose interest and not follow an "optimal maintenance" regimen, meaning my abilities decay below their peak. I don't feel too bad about it, and use muscle memory as justification: when I return to the activity, I will get back to my peak much quicker then when I first got there. Doing so allows me to extend the time before I have to refocus on that activity again. (But maybe that's suboptimal in the sense that I pushed myself too hard initially, so I am fed up with that activity and don't feel like doing maintenance at all.)

> Closely related is the eternal debate between satisficer vs maximizer which is just the primal-dual representation of the optimization problem.

Can you elaborate on this?
Frozen is only good as means to preserve food.

What did Microsoft copied from Android?!?

If anything, Material 1.0 is heavily based on Metro.
Why Would You Tweet About Your Coup?
I share your opinion.

BUT, I am also using uBlock Origin with Javascript blocked by default. This makes a huge difference.

Otherwise the current Firefox mobile is considerably slower for me than Chrome, especially on uncached sites. Haven't tried Preview yet.
That's a simple rules based approach and any undergraduate can click a couple buttons and classify land cover with different spectral reclectances (at X wavelength) on a pixel or superpixel basis. The more interesting stuff is when you feed this information into ML
The stacked graphs are probably the most valuable for me, this isn't a competition between countries and I think the stacked graph better represents that.
Thanks, for example, you would be able to see the steps of the automation, and the site (full URL) where the automation is targeted, the name of the fields being captured during scraping, and you might receive some data about the success of the step/process. But you do not receive any feedback about whats gathered or returned to the desktop.

Cloud version could be cool for some people but i think it might kill any shot at the industry I serve.
But we know what's possible because other platforms like android exist.
Mirror?

502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
I'm pretty sure you're allowed to lie on those, and the computer obviously can't tell either :)
I thought you needed to keep the sample very dark and only illuminate it with a laser so you can see the changes in reflected wavelengths. How does a handled unit with light all around get around that?
To save other people the trouble, vexillology is the study of flags.
Sadly, this does not work for everything, as users can't always override the notarization requirement that was introduced in Catalina. I had the issue with Aerial, it's a screensaver which, technically, is a plugin and not an application. As such, the user will never get prompted for anything (and I'm putting aside the compounding effect/slight madness that screensavers are now a plugin to an appex to two different applications with different permissions set ! Oh Catalina...).

The only solution was to sign/notarize it, and I have to admit it took me more than a few days to figure it out, as finding exactly what works for distributing a plugin was not documented. And this is just to distribute a usable plugin on GitHub !
I think you meant possible.
I'd recommend any Python talk by Raymond Hettinger (Python core developer). The content is top notch, and he is also very good at delivering it.
also, there's no download link on your tutorials/help page. kind of a growth hack fail.
Clearly drones can do this.
Whenever I do, it gets flagged, but I'll give it another shot. Go learn about farming. It's the most environmentally destructive human activity. Go learn about how much land we would have to destroy in order to feed a terrible vegan diet to humanity. Trillions of animals ( insects, rodents, etc ) are killed to protect vegetation. Not to mention other animals like rabbits, deer, birds, etc that have to be wiped out. After all, you don't want a herd of deer or even elephants trampling on and eating your vegetation.

"Which means humans and wildlife are competing for fertile land for production of food and vegetation,” said Kitso Mokaila, Botswana’s minister of environment."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/man-vs-elephant/

Pretty much anywhere you have farms, you have to wipe out the animals to protect the vegetation. Whereas vegetation for livestock can be grown in poor quality land ( nebraska, dakotas, etc ), the crap that vegans eat cannot be grown there. Not only that, the crap that vegans eat - processed nuts, avocados, etc are extremely water expensive.

Ideally we'd all be hunter gatherers - pretty much 0 environmental footprint as you eat what mother nature provides. But given the human population that's unrealistic so the next best thing is livestock + vegetation ( omnivore diet ). The absolute worst thing is vegan diet as it is a terrible diet for humans, but it's also devastating for the environment as you'd need find a ridiculous amount of fertile land in warmer climates all over the world to destroy and farm since we can't raise the garbage vegans eat where we grow animal feed.

Also, if the world shifted to a vegan diet, then we'd have to get rid of pets since we'd have no source of meat for our cats, dogs, snakes, etc.

Vegans think the vegetation they eat drops down from heaven like manna. Nope, not only are trillions of animals killed to farm garbage for vegans, harvesting and processing also kills tons of animals. So much so that every bowl of salad is guaranteed to have many animal parts in them.

https://www.livescience.com/55459-fda-acceptable-food-defect...

So oddly enough, a lone vegan eating a bowl of salad is eating more animals than a family having steaks for dinner.

Also, humans aren't herbivore. Forcing humans to eat a herbivore diets is as wrong as forcing a herbivore to eat a carnivore diet. It's unnatural and deep down evil. But that's why some people support it so passionately I suppose. Vegans, anti-vax, flat earthers, etc are all the same type of people.
Wonderful to hear that it is now a native application in macOS that does not require XQuartz!

Perhaps related: Inkscape has always felt quite laggy for me, even with my extremely basic needs. I pretty much just make text in boxes and connect them with arrows. So together with all these new lovely features, I hope that performance is improved in this release also.
Maybe they assume everybody already knows that allowing lots of people to die is bad for the economy. Not to mention the perception of bad leadership.
Maybe as a society we think you ask for too much but he depends on your money so he has no choice but to oblige
Apparently I didn’t include the parts that don’t need to be changed. (Actually, with the correct input type, this piece of code shouldn’t raise any exception period other than BaseExcept like KeyboardInterrupt, which usually shouldn’t be caught like this either. So I would omit the try...except myself.)
Breaking RSA Security with a Low Noise D-Wave 2000Q Quantum Annealer
Dead people don’t require medical attention. Flattening the curve is about hospitals getting overwhelmed even if similar numbers of people get sick and die either way. The difference between hypothetically 1 million deaths vs 1.2 million deaths makes a huge difference for 200,000 people.
I guess most of that can already be replaced by constexpr/consteval.
Yeah, modern plug and play distros like Ubuntu are not the Linux of yesteryear.
The value of Windows is in the Win32 API, due to the existing investment into software. If you have existing code base, you want to keep it running with minimal ongoing investments.

For a case study of interest for newer APIs, see also Windows RT.
That's a graph of growth rate again, showing similar data to the article. That roughly flat growth rate means linear increase in total deaths, day by day. To be flattening that total curve, the growth rate needs to keep decreasing.
> Even in areas where they are opening up, people aren’t in any hurry to travel unnecessarily, be in crowds, go to restaurants, etc. Covid’s effect on the economy is going to devastating no matter what the official policy is.

Interesting that you have changed the topic. This is indicative of a broad problem that I am observing: nobody wants to discuss economic consequences and even mentioning this will result in either very heavy down-voting or outright deplatforming[1].

My question is rather specific to how long the economy can last while held in lockdown and whether the Times has ever reported such concerns.

The economy does things like bring us food and pay for the health care that is supposed to save us from the virus. Without the economy, we don't have food and we don't have health care.

If some percentage of the population is actively blocked from having jobs while having no income, no government subsidies, and no savings, then "civil unrest" becomes reality. This is historically true.

[1] If you think that discussion of the economy is somehow a hidden message about 5G, anti-vaxx, NWO, etc., then you really need to take some time to learn economics, and I would also suggest some critical thinking, philosophy, and reading comprehension review.
You can be told the facts and the figures and not reason to the right conclusion, see the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Also:

if result:
return True
return False
I'm sorry to ruin your imaginations but genetics, linguistics and history are real sciences concerned with tangible facts. Unlike some political theories with no right to claim credibility other than calling themselves "modern." Aryan (term I didn't use) simply means Iranian, regardless of whether nazis abused the term or not. You may find it useful to know that.
And they do it for Win32-based apps.
Yes, that's exactly right - we would see the URLs, the names of fields (from the DOM), and success states.

Just not the data itself. It's basically what would be stored in a web-scraping or automated testing script.
That depends on your definition of “a lot”. About 20-25% more than Dennark and Israel and the UK (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089392; the parent of that post says it’s 70% more than Germany).

20% difference is not little, but it is within the differences of PPP and average cost of living, so it’s not clear whether or not it’s more - e.g. food is cheaper in the us but medical services are much more expensive, so comparing how far money goes depends on your conditions.
> the offline reading list

I've wanted a feature like this for years but I had no idea it already existed! Thank you for this info. And yes, please don't break it, Mozilla.
You are correct!

To answer your question, writing a NUL char to stdout is no problem. Some utilities can actually use it as a delimiter since it’s so uncommon. I think most shells would just print nothing on the screen.
How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work from Home
> MySQL (C)

MySQL and MariaDB are a mixed of C++ and C nowadays [^2] [^1]. Most Database reimplementation nowadays are C++, Go or more recently (Rust).

> - message buses: DBus (C)

ZeroMQ is C++, Same for gRPC (reference of RPC nowadays), same for Thrift [^4]

> - games

Almost all triple A use the Unreal Engine or an home made engine in C++. Even Unity that brand itself as C# uses some C++ internally.

> distributed systems

Almost all Distributed system in the HPC world is C++ or Julia nowadays, with a bit of Fortran surviving.

> - AI runtimes

AI means often GPU usage, GPU usage means CUDA, meaning C++. That's valid for the today three main contenders (Tensorflow, pyTorch, MXNet ) and they all provide a python API on top of C++.

> Now let's add one obvious category which was suspiciously left out from this list: operating systems: Unix, BSDs, Linux, Plan 9, Illumos, GNU Mach, Windows NT, XNU --- there is almost no C++ here (and any C++ that there is in just the last two).

C++ is also in Fushia (Google) and BeOS/Haiku. But OS are mainly C (or Rust nowaday) because kernel space. Exception handling is problematic in kernel space.

[^1]: https:/github.com/MariaDB/server
[^2]: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server
[^3]: https://zeromq.org/
[^4]: https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift
the binary operation should also be associative (e.g. subtraction is no good)
Cool, by way of a quick survey on HN, how much would you pay in a cheaper tier?
It takes them till they counted all deaths, the bureaucracy is just slow. So last days data for Sweden (but also other coutries) are odd.
Which graph are you looking at?
I'm not sure what your point is. I thought the point that was trying to be made is that Kickstarter is a way to fund gamedev. But AFAIK there isn't a single example of the funds from Kickstarter being sufficient funding for a single game ever, AAA or indie.

(unless the game was being made for free as a hobby and the kickstarted was just for fun and not actually funding).
Try
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/
People downvoting: I guess I hit a nerve, but could you explain why?

Development and Operations are different disciplines and the idea was to remove silos, not make one person responsible for both.
Fantastic blog, I've devoured its few articles describing the whole history of WebGPU from the WebMetal prototype in 2016 until where we are today.

It definitely got me excited for this new piece of technology.
Fed Eats Buffett's Lunch
Anyone else getting a 502 error on this page?

I started using inkscape recently for editing a few svg's and was impressed at how much this free program can do while also being easy to use.

I've been using gimp for a long time now and still get lost in it's poorly laid out UI, with inkscape I can usually find what I'm looking for on the first try.
Spain has one too, and France has a blip up: https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#currently_...
Editors in particular, are worse for some people if they can't render Unicode text properly, have poorer rendering of fonts, can't be analysed by assistive tools such as screen readers and braille displays, and don't interact with OS and tools outside the browser the same way as HTML and native elements.

Sometimes a good compromise is to use canvas for rendering some things things on a page (the way Google Sheets does), but create HTML elements on top as needed for particular behaviour.
I wonder if the people who just downvote you without comment don't realize that they're just proving your point, or if they just don't care about being that blatant.
> Are there editors that actually overwrite the original file, instead of creating a new file?

Are there ones that do the reverse? :o.

Seriously though, it's worth pointing out that what you describe is not obvious, and one can easily miss that there are two ways of writing a file to disk. Case in point, it took me 17 years of programming to discover that "writing new files under the same filename" is a thing, and that was only by accident, beacuse I started wondering why #'open in Common Lisp has both :overwrite and :supersede as different options for what to do if the file you want to write to exists...
Health care is >$800/month in Germany. I don't get why we get away with the notation that health care is free. It's not free, health insurance is simply compulsory here.
First, you have to ask yourself "When do I want to spend the money?"

Only then can you decide the best way to invest it.
It just says that the Finns are genetically closely related to Swedes and linguistically a universe apart.
eh, indeed, can't edit anymore. thanks !
Neat fact: the UN definition of a forest is 20% coverage. London is 21% trees. London is a forest.

https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/did-you-know-tha...
The inclusion of algebraic data types, coming from someone who uses TypeScript on the frontend and functional languages on the backend, already makes Rust the best choice for me, and conversely makes Go a non-starter. Rust definitely takes longer but I've been learning it through the Book and also by doing the exercises on Exercism [0]. The exercises really help in understanding, as for example, I didn't understand borrowing too well until doing the prime number generator problem, using a sieve of Eratosthenes which can use a mutable vector of previous primes.

[0] https://exercism.io/tracks/rust
Please try another link (if you are getting 502 error) https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/
The do have several articles of the sort you're interested in:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/business/economy/coronavi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/coronavirus-econ...

are two examples.
Huawei Set to Enter the PC Market with Eight-Core Kunpeng 920 Processor
Congrats. In my opinion Inkscape shines in usability (vs Gimp that I could never grasp for example)
MoltenVK is the most prominent Vulkan to Metal translation library. Technically, it's a 1st party library, since it's the core of the Khronos Group's Vulkan SDK on mac/iOS.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
Grit is just a marketable term for what has been know for a long time as conscientiousness, one of the five main personality traits in psychology
https://archive.li/mMN8K#Inkscape_1.0
"Random" can mean "I don't know before I start my instance".

If you're multi-cloud (vultr, DO, AWS and GCP) you almost certainly will not know your instances IP before it's provisioned and you can't make use of nice features like network tags or security labels.

If you're producing test environments then bootstrapping those is going to be significantly more painful than just opening up your salt-master and running an authenticated API request to allow those new machines.

As other people have mentioned, this was always supposed to be /possible/ it's akin to SSH. Sure, you can avoid some log spam and potential issues by firewalling it off- but it's meant to be possible to run it publicly, it has always been marketed this way so it's not "insane" that people did it.
I got the heck out the SF Bay Area to semi-rural NorCal, and have a good 12 months of food that would normally get eaten anyhow. Curiously, I frequently see drivers speeding down the street here with their vehicle windows down, no masks, and acting like there's no such thing as a virus. One of the adjacent properties is constructing a house and multiple neighbors have been chainsawing pines and oaks nonstop for the past month. In 3 months, I've only been off-property once for an emergency dental visit.

I don't think there is, or ever will be, sufficient testing evidence to justify similar-to-past public interaction until if or when there is a safe and effective vaccine deployed that covers all strains. The prevalence is basically unknown and will only be worse when there is no longer mindshare or patience to keep up the fight... I think nearly all of this socioeconomic pain will be for naught because of the endgame.
Yup. I use Firefox as standard browser on my phone, and even on an antiquated Samsung tablet (galaxy tab 3, Android 4.2, dual core and 1GB of RAM) with some extensions, and it's perfectly functional and usable.
Perhaps it was just terrorism or pique? By blowing up infrastructure after the Finns think they've won and you aren't anywhere around you demoralize them. It would be a sort of trolling. The military is made of humans and humans do this.
Vulkan started as optional API on Android and its support is so bad outside Google and Samsung flagship devices, that with Android 10 Google made it a required API with respective OEM acceptance tests.

Yet, the numbers are so tiny that Google has yet to bother to list them on Android Dashboard,

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards

Last update was on May 1, 2020.
I have a family member working in a major metropolitan hospital. They are not overwhelmed. By all accounts, our state is at or past the peak, and we are not even close to being overwhelmed. Many doctors and nurses are actually out of work as "elective" procedures are on hold.

Measuring the number of cases as the testing is being massively bumped out does not measure overload - actual death rate does.
These were "mines" used to blow up bridges, roads and railroads. The bigger ones had thousands of kg of explosives. So more like remote demolition over radio. Idea being that you could destroy the critical infrastructure after retreating from the area and if you had vision on it when someone was on it like the first one that killed a couple officers (killed a major who was the chief lawyer for the Finnish General Staff)

Modern equivalent would be cellphone bombs in roads in Afghanistan/Iraq.
The British used to be great vexillologists, clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY
Let's switch scrambled eggs for a two Michelin stars-restaurant kind of recipe (which is where I would put XP - to the very top of developers)
Comparing 40 Ruby on Rails application monitoring tools
> I don't know the extent to which this is true

It's very easy to search for this information. Here's one link: https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2020/03/31/counting-deaths-involving...

> In the case of Germany, there would be 12,000 weekly deaths on average, versus about 2000 weekly deaths due to COVID-19 at the peak - that is within the variance caused by the seasonal flu. It would not have been a suspicious rise.

If you're comparing covid-19 to flu you must count them using the same method, and you're not doing that here. Here, for covid-19 you're using "deaths after confirmed positive" but for flu you're using "all cause mortality". When you use the same method to count covid-19 and flu deaths you see much higher rates of death for covid-19.