skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, HDTracks' target audience is middle-aged audiophiles and dadrock enthusiasts, so it's natural that their price point will be higher than on the indie end of the spectrum (aka Bandcamp). Also, there will be more middlemen chipping off their share when you buy from HDtracks.
Prisons Replace Ankle Bracelets with Smartphone App That Doesn't Work
> This system improves rocket-engine efficiency so that more power is generated while using less fuel than traditional rocket energies, thus lightening the rocket's load and reducing its costs and emissions.
agree,

I'm using pipelines in Elm, which is almost the same syntax as in OCaml (piping into the last argument).

I dislike "<|" b/c of the flexibility syndrome. It's frequently used in Elm in order to avoid parentheses.

Same with Elixir, but it's missing currying, so it does piping into the first argument.

Clojure has both thread-first and thread-last macros.

The problem with these approaches is that they are optional.
Ideally the point-free programming will be the default, not an optional style.

I agree that pipelines in Elm and Elixir are much more readable than point-free code in Forth and APL ;)

Unlike the ML-family languages, in APL/J/K/q you can omit any combination of arguments:

f:{x-y}

f[1] same as f[1; ]
f[;1] same as f[ ;1]
f same as f[ ; ]
More like blogging, which is a really good way for long term growth
Is part of the fauna of Europe and US. You can find native Garden Eels in tropical but also temperate areas. Cool creatures. I had seen them in the wild and it was a strange experience. Like seeing a lawn growing backwards.

There are more cheap and simple solutions than video-chat (figures printed on cardboard and cut for example), so we can safely assume that eel eye reaction to screen flickering is not the real point here.
Why do I have a hard-time believing this?

So many really bad drugs that are popularized and thrown with black-box warnings and such after the fact.

I think the integrity of that system has been subverted.
Gnome has been replicating the worst parts of windows (the registry comes instantly to mind) since the release of Gnome 3.
Studios bypass cinemas with lucrative lockdown premieres
For monitoring we ended up using collectd + Grafana, but it takes a while to set it up and make it work, it's probably better to go with an external service if you don't want to spend time. We also used a bit https://pm2.keymetrics.io/ monitoring, it's pretty nice, but it becomes really expensive if you have more than 2-3 servers.
It’s a bad implementation. You can run inline compression on latency sensitive workloads like VDI without issue.

Compression makes a lot of sense as the cost for fast high capacity SSD is usually much higher than the extra CPU cycles required to decompress.
God this would be ironic. Everybody that's protesting would go absolutely bonkers if next month the government ordered adults to get MMR.
I've noticed that in Asia food prices are relatively low and there is an abundance of options. There are many mom & pop places, whereas in the U.S. it feels like mostly big chains.

In South Korea and Japan, it's common to order and pay for your machine using a kiosk. When your food is ready, you pick it up yourself, and when you're done, you drop off your tray in the designated location. I'd imagine this saves on a great deal of labor costs.

Other than that, perhaps the rent is too damn high in the U.S. My experience watching countless restaurants and commercial properties become vacant storefronts and bank retail branches in Manhattan at least would suggest that.
Speculating on the Animal Crossing Turnip Market
Nice page. Very abstract. The design squiggle is blank white, then?
The page doesn't say that they are calling in lines of credit, just that they aren't issuing new lines of credit
> Once in a while, they’ll even say “Stop right now – your drug is so damn good that it’s unethical not to give it to everyone in the trial”, but years go by when that does not happen, anywhere in the industry.

We've had such a case a short time ago (months?) in the news. Does anyone remember what that was about or even has a link?
Not really, because you find the bug soon enough and that reinforces your self-importance.
Why is the CTO talking about selling? Dont mean to be harsh just curious
OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc. ...they all can sync selectively and can be used on Android, Windows, Linux and macOS.
3 big differences on the “real” stock market: the professionals are more sophisticated, it’s incredibly regulated & litigated, it’s vastly bigger.
I created social version of Wikipedia
Please tell me your opinions. I hope to make it popular. It was developed with react and node js.
wait doesn't this mean that those of us that have gotten the MMR vaccine are potentially immune?
Enthusiast restores Tesla BS350 (1977),ultravacuum scanning electron microscope
I like your sentiment, but it conveniently forgets the significant amount of bloodshed and instability that usually occurs when one such regime collapses.

Just look at Libya. The West got rid of Gadaffi and the country went from stability under a dictator to fractured chaos where tourism industry is dead and slave markets have opened.
I know Snap maybe offered tighter sandboxing, but why didnt AppImage take off? It seems like it solves the problems of deb/rmp/etc war and is easy to create for app devs...
No, they don't! They fight for something which everybody wants and few can attain: a secure and prestigious job with little responsibility.
> Anyone who has that kind of confidence in the Wuhan laboratory researchers is operating from a different set of facts than I am.

What set of facts do you have access to? I haven’t any reason to believe that lab is particularly bad, so would be glad to learn something additional.
NotSoPureMichigan
Know your customer, works well for me. I focus on Fortune 500 at my job, and people forget to ask what the customer wants and go straight into a sale. Meta: not sure about this blog, it is in itself a sales page.
Wait until their house is worth less than the debt. Hide their assets, bail on the house, declare bankruptcy.
> I view real-time as "the clients reflect the true state of the world without taking action." So if something changed the state of the world, all clients paying attention to that should also be updated.

That's a perfect description of "live streaming".
gconf is like the windows registry how? is it just because its a centralized config store? how evil is an annotated, easy to use, non archaic file that some apps put their settings into?
Smaller pollbooks, preferably within walking distance of home.

There are legitimate reasons to vote early. Allow people to cast a ballot at a secure location beforehand.

Election integrity and maximizing participation are both goals, but the former is more important.

And if you're an adult, and circumstances force you to move around the time of an election, add managing your voter registration into your task list.

We can all agree that database maintenance is hard. So own your entry in the pollbook like an adult.

This is, arguably, a simple competence check for casting the ballot.
Yeah, it's almost as bad as the calculator in Window 10. It's completely ridiculous for ANY calculator app to take that long to load on a modern PC.
No, it isn't. The idea that saying "gnarfgnarf is an imaginary number is completely meaningless" is the opposite of true: if you assert that gnarfgnarf is an imaginary number, that is the definition we'll be using for the remainder of whatever proof we use that in. Anywhere the proof now talks about gnarfgnarf, we're talking about something that is an imaginary number, and has to follow all the rules that imaginary numbers have to follow, without ever having to say which imaginary number it is, or further define it. It's "any" imaginary number, we just call it "gnarfgnarf" instead of "x" or "a + bi" or the like.

Same here: we have a number written as 0.666...7 using conventional mathematical notation. The comment that is being replied to asserts that this can be treated as a sequence, and so we start the proof with that definition: "0.666...7 is a sequence", and now we're done. You, as reader of the proof, have been informed that those nine symbols, in that order, for the rest the proof, represent a sequence. Not "a specific sequence", but "any sequence", and it must follow all the rules that sequences follow.

We then show that simply by being "a sequence", due to the properties of sequences, we get a contradiction. Our first assertion is the definition for the purpose of this proof, and is sufficient.
Is there any sensible documentation on this somewhere?

I've been running Debian, and then Ubuntu, for a quarter-century now, largely because things just worked. .deb is nearly perfect.

Having used Docker, it's the last thing I want on my desktop, for a whole slew of reasons.

It's odd, Windows and Linux switched spots in that time. Windows 10 is faster, more stable, and more understandable than Ubuntu. Ubuntu is increasingly layered, convoluted, and bloated. Windows runs on light systems. Ubuntu requires a ton of RAM and CPU.

I think this might be the thing which will makes me give up Ubuntu.
What's missing in this article but well reported on in Newsweek [1] is that these studies included "gain of function" research, which means attempts to make viruses human transmissible. This type of research is extremely dangerous and very controversial within the scientific community and that portion should certainly be stopped.

Almost all of the attention has been focused on the lab receiving these grants. However, that lab is miles away from the initial outbreak and there's another lab that's a block away from the Wuhan seafood market that also does bat research (but not gain of function). This lab is also adjacent to the hospital that dealt with initial outbreak. This was pointed out by Chinese researchers in a preprint that was quickly taken down [2].

1: https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...

2: The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus
10.13140/RG.2.2.21799.29601
https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https://www.resea...
If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly

By William Bernstein
They can sell the asset, pay off the balance, downsize to a smaller house for a smaller debt or a low rent accommodation. Save money and earn the interest on it, probably invest in the stock market now that it's in a downturn and start saving money.

Once they have a better egg they can put back into a property if they wish, hopefully with the help of a smaller loan they can actually pay.
I’m not sure what “feels hackish” means but it sounds suspiciously like a nonspecific complaint that is used when all the actual potential issues have been exhausted.

In programming, we’re always dealing with stacks. It’s just that they’re usually invisible. As someone dealing with an unexpected user crash in a modern/traditional language, the possibility of making them visible would be pretty helpful right about now! I’d kill for a crash dump that included a data stack, too.
The vanilla game isn't usually considered one. E.g. it doesn't really have a fleshed out character or a narrative.
Why SARS-CoV-2 Bluetooth contact tracing apps are a tremendously stupid idea
That's why when stuff is being advertised as "everyone can do it", everyone gets excited but I run away. I don't want to be overcome by hard workers, so I am looking for stuff for which you truly have to be a genius to do it and hard work is not a shortcut.
What does this mean? You just listen to music in your head?
The auto update because users can't make the decision themselves is just copying windows 10 model.

Do applications break after auto-updates? of course they do and that is something that is important to ubuntu users because they have to manually fix. Given the choice I would rather choose when to upgrade so I could set aside time for fixes.

Ubuntu users are not windows 10 users. Why treat them in the same way?
Ya. Sorry, I'm still struggling on how to phrase this.

I'm totally on board with 80% feature complete, MVP, biz case, etc.

What I'm trying to articulate, here and elsewhere:

implementations that apparently work, but not really

coders who don't check their own work

doing the bare minimum to get awarded the agile velocity victory points

futility of arguing definitions of "done"

lack of feedback loops

that cliche about managing to metrics leads to undesired outcomes

the personal cost, burden of craftsmanship in a "break things and move fast" world
IIRC, I originally had 2 expressions that evaluated to booleans that I was comparing. I don't remember if I had parens, but I do remember being deeply confused once there were no parens.
Is Mobx Magic?
> I'd say common usage of the phrase "real time," means with respect to human perception, and that is how its being used here.

So do you consider YouTube a real-time system? After all, images are moving on your screen "in real-time" from the user's perspective.

It seems to me that these are all streaming systems, and when the data is "live", then it's "live streaming".

Even colloquially, I hazard that "real-time" has some implication that there's some correspondance between your temporal reference frame and the original temporal reference frame. I think the engineering definition just made that correspondance precise.
The main way businesses that use labor reduce cost and/or increase profit is to reduce the cost of labor. Efficiency wins are generally small compared to labor costs.

So the reality is that, as the article noted, restaurants have been in a battle for a decade or two focused on cost reduction, which means mostly labor cost reduction.

In short: the cost of eating out is relatively low because we pay most of the people involved as little as possible. That might be good for our eating out, but it's far from clear that it's good for the rest of our lives.
The key to taking a drug through trial is having enough cash for the trial and for your company to survive the time it takes to complete the trial successfully. Remember that said success is not guaranteed and you might have to write off years of work and start from scratch.

This is why drugs are so expensive in the West.
State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...
The good news is that 18 is one of the super-LTS releases, so you don't have to upgrade until 2028.
Lines of credit aren't your money though.
For largely this reason, I've just switched to Manjaro after over two decades (ouch!) of using Debian and Ubuntu. I'm very happy with it!

Package installs are unbelievably fast. But mostly, the AUR repository of user contributed packaging scripts is awesome! Although I'm a bit worried about installing packages from random internet people, they are generally short and very easy to check for unwanted *ware. Haven't been disappointed yet!
The problem is people with kids need access to good schools. Even if "good" is just "perceived as good by the next rung on the ladder, for entrance requirements".

These are typically available only centrally.
We need to broadcast the folly if vote-by-mail far and wide.

In defense of vote-by-mail proponents, if the voters are stupid enough to permit this folly to unfold, then I'm ready to blame the victims.
What Boosted Boards was building before it shut down
One of my colleagues used to love referencing Sayre's Law when we found ourselves bikeshedding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law.
I was thinking the same thing with regard to the public sector. The generals example is really good. $300k, and they could be killed, or responsible for people being killed.
I'm still on 18.04, but I agree. Discord and VSCode keep occasionally prompting me to manually download and install .deb files. I'd really prefer if they just updated automatically. Discord gives a full page "download this update to keep doing things" message that interrupts everything. (i think only on larger updates? i havent seen it in a while) A quick google is telling me that both have snap packages - I guess I'll probably be switching to those when I setup 20.04. Hopefully the snap versions work as well as the non-snaps.

I think its interesting that they are pushing snaps so hard on this LTS release though. I always thought of the LTS versions as getting stuck with older versions and being very strict about updates not breaking things. I guess perhaps with the snap-sandboxing this should work smoother? Personally, as long as my system works I don't care. If the software gets updated, that's fine with me.
The significance of this announcement (and why I am assuming OP posted it), is not to let us know that we can't get home equity lines, but instead showing it as a signal that one of the largest mortgage providers in the world is worried about future home/land values.

Remember that Wells Fargo is the 26th largest corporation in the world. They have plenty of money. They have lots of smart people (insert your "stupid banker" joke here) working for them. They have lots of highly-paid analysts that make these decisions. These are not spur-of-the-moment, panic-induced decisions. Wells Fargo also has a lot of experience with home values and mortgages, by being the largest Home Mortgage provider in the US (by dollar value), with $126B in home loans [1].

Long story short, they are experienced in home values and mortgages and they have a lot riding on them. They have smart people that have looked at the current and future state of home values and decided, that despite the potential revenue that could be generated from Home Equity Lines, there is too much risk in offering this product and they will stop offering it until further notice.

That's a big deal. Wells Fargo is leaving lots of money on the table by NOT offering these. But their analysts have decided that it is too risky. That to me, means that there is a lot of concern over future home value. We have been living in a housing bubble for a while. We all know it, Wells Fargo knew it, and this could be a signal that at least Wells Fargo is concerned that the bubble might be popping.

(I personally hate Wells Fargo, but did have a Home Mortgage through them until about 3 months ago when I sold my last home. I wouldn't borrow from them again however. This isn't a fanboy piece, but it is important to acknowledge their strengths when looking at signals like this).

[1] - https://www.housingwire.com/articles/41539-here-are-the-top-...
Some people do. Some people with a stay at home parent homeschool. I don’t want my kids going to subpar public schools, so would rather have their education happen at home, which allows us to live anywhere with my remote job.

A counter point to your central schooling argument is Chicago Public Schools, which are terrible.
Auto updates have existed long before Windows 10.

It's great that you are diligent about updating your software regularly. But how many people do? If you agree that it's a low percentage, then why is not better for the ecosystem as a whole to improve security and compatibility?
Not in any way does this resemble 2008. WF is not originating new loans because essentially all consumers suddenly have terrible looking credit and WF doesn't want to take on that risk.
It's big enough you'd need to arrange to go over there with trucks full of data storage and copy it over in person. It's very large and constantly growing, especially subsets like the Wayback Machine, but I'd guess the video archives are growing faster than they'd allow you to copy them out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive

> the archive's over 48 petabytes of digitized materials.

... and they'd likely have to rate-limit your downloads after a certain point so you don't saturate the connection and cut off everyone else.
18.04 has a ten year extended security maintenance life AFAIK, so you could stretch to 2028.
Because much of the "value" presently seen is speculative, and there are many reasons not to be bullish for the next couple of years.
Not to bring too much of a traditional business view to HN, but measuring margin is arguably more important than measuring revenue.
Which has completely different meaning in the web world. Context matters.
From the article: "Masks don't stop you getting sick"

From the article's source (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019665530...): "None of these surgical masks exhibited adequate filter performance and facial fit characteristics to be considered respiratory protection devices"

Well, what's "adequate filter performance and facial fit"? For filter performance, they measured how good the surgical masks were at blocking tiny latex spheres that approximated an aerosol, and found that masks ranged from less than 1% penetration (best) all the way to 80% penetration (worst). For facial fit, they told subjects who "were not screened for previous use of masks or respirators" to wear masks and then sprayed an aerosolised bitter substance on them, and found all of the subjects could taste it after their first try.

The article is making the claim that masks don't stop you getting sick, based on a source that indicates some masks don't filter aerosols completely and that nobody wears masks correctly anyway. This is a bit of a stretch - their source says nothing about larger droplets, it says nothing about side effects like touching your face less, it says nothing about masks encouraging other people to socially distance, it says very little about how masks reduce the viral load that reaches you.

I don't think there's enough evidence to categorically state that masks do not stop you getting sick. I think it's irresponsible to make such a firm statement without better evidence.
100% agree! I hate snaps and Ubuntu is overdoing it too much now.

I've moved to Alpine for servers and Arch for desktop now.
Billionaires are wealthy enough to hire full time people to figure out their privacy, they aren't going to be affected by this law. Nor is "billionaires will be able to be private too" a convincing argument to me. But someone worried about being able to text a friend without their husband reading messages to find out where they are going will be affected by this law. The next Snowden story might not make it to the press in one piece. Etc etc.
> It's certainly possible it came from a lab.

Quite a few significant geneticists consider it extremely unlikely: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

Sure, it’s possible, but that probability appears to be extremely small.

Edit: I just realized you might have meant “natural origins but escaped from the lab rather than being introduced directly from wild animals”. If that’s what you meant apologies that my reply is irrelevant. If you meant “deliberately engineered in a lab” then my reply stands. I don’t see science as a “left/right” issue.
> Now a possible alternative explanation (not explored by the journalist) is that the bacteria lived off the remaining organic materials in the rock and the byproduct of their life were substances that dulled the crystals.

Is that your hypothesis or from an actual paper about the study?

I think this makes a lot of sense, because if there wasn’t left over organic material the bacteria could “eat” and was simply about bacteria stripping electrons from inanimate matter...I’m left wondering why the bacteria wouldn’t indiscriminately strip electrons including from say the test tube itself?
I definitely wouldn't jump to this conclusion. Even the optimistic conclusion here would be something like you have a lower chance of getting infected and/or lower chance of severe income. But not immunity.
I mean, if you dig with any seriousness, it's pretty likely that THEY actually manufactured it.