skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shouldn't; you don't fill anything at registration, so even if the password generators prefill it, it should remain empty and can be ignored.
Actually, I like how Microsoft goes straight to the point and does an altogether announcement in one page without the hype and pompous animations and transitions from Apple and Google over a single product page.

They saved the whole showcase animations and marketing in the video and not spoiled it into their website.
Most of Europeans do. You might not care in the moment but you will care if you know how these profiles are used, sold and resold, ...
The best ads I've seen have been served from sites that do not target ads using cookies. I doubt that cookies are as necessary as you claim.
LinkedIn Removed from Google's Index
I disagree. Your argument is the theoretical one, while mine is the practical. As I said, people do not know what cookies are and even if they did, everyone who has done analysis on user behavior knows that none of that makes a difference. Presented with two buttons, red and green, most users will click on the green one, without reading what either one of them says or implies, if they have some incentive to get to the other side. I've personally tried this with countless A/B tests and the results are evident every time: mindless clicking/tapping.
The club still has to follow the law. You can't have a "murder club" and you can't have a "I don't follow the GDPR club".
There is no algorithm of truth, and with enough data you can arrive at any conclusion you like. Maybe people should be better educated, instead of machines becoming smarter.
Cato: Stimulus bills could add nearly $6T to national debt
All told, these decisions will add an estimated $5.8 trillion to the national debt.

The deficit will soar to nearly $4 trillion in 2020, then narrow to roughly $1.5 trillion for the next few years, before it is expected to widen again.
He has 80K, not 80M.
IO bandwidth is also a serious issue. You can run 250K interactive users and 1K printers and 25 or so tape drives quite easily off a mainframe cluster. Probably not off a pi, LOL.
I think it states that in the sense of "well based on our study it won't hurt, so there's no reason not to follow the advice of countries that have been dealing with this longer"
> If true, it changes virtually nothing about our current situation.

Honest question: why?

(Note: my background includes pharmacology, so I am more interested in pharmacological options rather than vaccines)
+1 for driving being easier. We park a car on the street in Brooklyn. Normally this is a huge hassle where we have basically memorized when are good times to use the car so we can find a spot again. But twice now we have used the car and found our original parking spot still available.
How do calligraphic strokes differ from the built in calligraphy pen tool that lets you set a bunch of params to be controlled by your input device (tilt, pressure, etc.)? Is the idea that you make something that looks like similar pen input but in a more bezier-like way?
The timing of the CSR deal was amazing (for customers at least). All of my friends have switched to DD too because of it.
Will Rust bindings be available, despite their decision to write this in C++?
Higher resolution screen, better aspect ratio, touch and an ntrig pen. Seems they would need to make it more expensive for a fair competition.
Wouldn't it make more sense to build the charging into the road?
In reality enterprise users on have zero chances seeing WSL2 on their PCs in foreseeable future. Last two banks I worked for ran windows builds 1703 and 1803 respectively, more progressive of the two announced plans to update to 1903 not too long ago (yes, two first digits is year).

Oh, and WSL1 was banned, of course, on the grounds of being "too expensive and uncertain to support". You could have a Linux VM though, with approved distro, same as what prod machines run.

So really WSL is still confined to a small domain of switchers tired of MBP keyboards, Linux is safe for now :)
> Demand is going to be decreased no matter if everything opens up or not.

Sure, but is it possible to posit that, or to at least discuss, some nuance of at least some variance of some sort:

A. Demand is going to be decreased, and a bunch of people are going to starve to death (or, more likely, take to the streets with their pitch forks and torches).

B. Demand is going to be decreased, and recovery will be difficult.
You mean like EU companies are not forced to stop trading with Iran, it was their free decision.
It is the cheapest AND most advanced rocket design ever conceived. You can thank Musk for saving taxpayers' money; if he didn't come, you would have to remain dumping massive tons of money (IIRC 10x more per year than the whole Starship program has cost SpaceX - SpaceX, not taxpayers, they contributed only a very minor part of that budget) to Boeing and other very expensive parties. BTW I am sure you know that SpaceX was funded with private money at the beginning and does a lot of private flights.

BTW 2, I am sure that you know that advancing spaceflight has widespread positive effects on humanity as a whole; the people using Starlink won't be billionaires, but ordinary dudes.
Same here, especially because that implies there's a Cancel button you can use to back out bad ideas.

In database terms, do you prefer explicit transactions or autocommit? For things that really matter, I want an explicit commit step.
Small company here (30 total people, 8 in IT/software).

- unwillingness to seed control of the critical parts of our software infrastructure to a third party.

- given our small team size and our technical debt load we are not currently able to re-architect to make our software cloud-ready/resilient.

- true cost estimates feel daunting to calculate, whereas on-prem costs are fairly easy to calculate.
Sometimes I wonder if I have yet to escape the Fennosphere to the real internet. All this stuff about Finland being the happiest place on Earth... Maybe it's just like the great firewall of China!
Well, one of the biggest platforms for VR gaming has dropped support for Mac OS.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/1/21244468/steam-mac-support...

Coupled with a history of GPU driver support usually being best on Windows and having good GPU support is usually pretty important for VR, its pretty clear why Windows is probably the best platform for VR development at the moment.
I have a Chrome extension called "No more cookies" I think, that just eliminates those walls completely. Best install I've made the past year.
The only good options are:

1. Make much more rapid charging possible on the cars much closer to the interstate.
2. Add a electrified metal rail to the road so that the cars can charge like a subway car.
What is chron?
The EU isn't ruining anything. The websites are choosing to abuse their users and ruin your experience. It's their fault this legislation exists in the first place. Aim your ire at the problem, not the fix.
Things to consider when pricing the Go 2, upgrading from Windows S to Windows Pro and for make sure to get a drive bigger than 64gb. Windows isn't really a comfortable experience with so little storage space over the years.
That's a great rundown. I didn't mean to oversimplify the effort. Just to say that mapping Linux to Windows is likely much harder.

The lseek() call in your link is closer to what I meant by simple.
Are you talking about using Lisp macros to generate C/C++/documentation? I'm not sure how Lisp macros would be better than static metadata files being operated on by some high level scripting language.
buy urbit stars
Sales, marketing, legal in every market they operate in. Remember they don't have to deal only with different countries, but different states and municipalities in each of them, each with their own laws and ordnances and lobbying needs.
Also call the field “website” or any variation of standard Wordpress field names.
> Slap this on the top of your code:

> #define new(dtype,length) (dtype *)malloc(sizeof(dtype),(length))

Kind of a minor point, but isn't the consensus among C programmers that you shouldn't cast the result of malloc?
Neither... maybe Biden simply to shakeup and push further towards an "accelerationist" change of the system (because he won't improve things either).

I voted for Trump in '16 to increase manufacturing, close the trade deficit in the midwest, and end neocon wars in the middle east (I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan).

I also support restricting immigration, though I know that's controversial around here. In any case, Trump has failed miserably on all counts. He's more concerned with the stock market than almost anything else, and has stacked his administration with neocon retreads, not pulled troops out etc.

Unless and until some sort of massive restructuring of our political and monetary system, the whole thing will continue to be controlled by banking and finance. No party serves my interests (a more nationalistic economic and industrial policy, and a more socialistic yet conservative social/cultural policy). We have left wing social culture, and market/finance dominated economic policy. Worst combination in my opinion.
Yes, grit is much more how much you stick to things you've chosen.

Consider two scenarios of a child playing who soccer:

Child 1 hates soccer, but is forced to play by their parents: I see no lack of grit in such a scenario if the child resists going to practices & games and pushes his parents to let him quit.

Child 2 likes soccer and wants to play. However, in their first game they play goalie and the team loses 3 to 0. If the child doubles down and decided to practice more, that is grit. If they get discourages and want to quit, that is a lack of grit.

Obviously there's still more to it than the relatively simple outline here, but it shouldn't be considered a universal ability to do any & everything or never abandon a project.
Surface Go and iPad Pro are not comparable products.

I have a Surface Go and it's a great little machine for what it is but iPad Pro should be compared to the Surface X.
+1

I'm quite happy with my home setup - dual monitors, window view, etc. I'd love a bit more quite though because I've got two kids running around.
Frame It Right Power of Framing Things Right
Ha, and for this specific release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071341

Including an extensive comment by dang explaining why they didn't have it hit the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428
Conversely, if restaurants can't survive with apps taking a 30% cut, there may be no market for delivery aggregators. 5% is too little for the aggregator; 30% too much for the restaurant. Perhaps there's a middle ground around 15%.
We could make the road out of interlocking hexagonal solar panels
I concur; I was AFK for a while (pursuing other hobbies, living abroad with no access to a full-sized keyboard) but picked it up, and improved beyond my prior capabilities, pretty quickly.
Is there some WinUI 3 application code I could compare with a AppKit/Qt/whatever? I look all over, and surely must have missed something obvious before getting lost in XAML Islands, WinRT, WinUI2 and other random shit.
vi has been life changing. Learning vi altered my entire concept of what interacting with text could be, and even my personal physical relationship with a keyboard. Using vi is like driving a stick shift; satisfying in the depth of control once the learning curve is done. vi has been a daily friend now for over 20 years. So much insight is cooked into those little key mappings.
Unironically huge fan of this phrasing: "It's not like I'm obsessed, I just watch it 24/7"
Are you joking? Event Viewer's "filter event sources" UI is unusable - the scroll causes the check boxes to vanish. It's been unusable for 20 years. Virtually every ops person needs to be told to use the keyboard and just accept that a few erroneous sources will be selected or use the spacebar to deselect them. Even more frustrating, just typing the name of the event source seems to work INTERMITTENTLY!

In the same time, Task Manager has gained nice charts, it's begun to display stats on network and disk as well as CPU usage, and it's gained a simplified view that my mother can use to close a crashing program. I've been spectacularly impressed with the task manager changes - simultaneously making it easy for low skill users and adding advances features making it unnecessary for me to install Process Explorer on every machine I use.
Critical mass of Android users 'needed for success of NHS contact tracing app'
Haven’t heard of the deal? How does it work? Using CSR as a payment method?
People if they don't have a car, are afraid to take public transportation to go to work. The same happens with some food factories, 10x more orders but half the people are refusing to go back to work.
> The club should be able to set the rules as it deems fit.

That's only true under ideological assumptions that are far from universal. I think most people would be OK with society putting reasonably-justified restrictions on the kinds of rules the club can set.
Industrial AI startup Covariant raises a $40M Series B
dosbox-staging — DOS/x86 emulator focusing on ease of use
A Multi-Risk Sir Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdown [pdf]
Well I've had my doctor tell me I needed more sunlight.
You're not wrong. You're just working with the wrong people. If you want to be a part of the full system including SRE and DevOps tasks start looking for a new place to work. If you expect this group to change you're probably setting yourself up for failure.
Trump administration drafts pact for mining on the moon
> When you compile the whole gotdanged planet on every file save, you do a lot of disk writes and stat calls on tens of thousands of files.

What kind of bizarre twisted hellscape do we live in where we just accept this as normal -- for a web page.
It's definitely more expensive than most delivery apps, but idt it is even because of the delivery fee, which usually appears reasonable. They kill you on the percentage based service charge. Which is maybe trying to makeup for different delivery logistics, but it definitely doesn't explicitly price based on delivery difficulty- which makes it much more annoying to me.

The only other app I noticed doing this is Caviar. Perhaps they assume that people ordering from steakhouses will largely not care about the extra service fee, so it makes more business sense to jack up the price as much as possible. But personally it has stopped me from ordering on multiple occasions.
> Even New York, the worst city in the worst country in the world

Pretty sure this is inaccurate, except perhaps by total number of deaths...
The decisions made since Ive has left Have me hopeful for a better future at Apple. They’re never going to be perfect, but things are going in the right direction. Their laptops are getting ticker for crying out loud!
China is weaponizing online distraction (2018)
I will never endorse the "nostril camera" of XPS 9XXX series considering they have now released better.
The fallacy here is simple:

All of the assumptions mapping from our experiences to "alien" experiences are built on that those experiences share fundemental premises. That the demographics of alien civilizations match our own. That we are a median point and not an extreme outlier. There are even solid arguments for considering us an outlier (Fermi paradox)

Even if we take the sketchy assumptions that the sizes of alien civilizations are zipfy, we could equally reasonably assume most civilizations are smaller than us even if we are the smallest civilizations to ever exist.
> It is impossible to be really good at everything

That's true, but it is possible to acquire "meta-skills" which make it easier to acquire new skills. Someone with good meta-skills, like the ability to focus, or the ability to quickly triage what things ought to be optimized, or even just knowing what one really wants out of life, can get a lot better at more things than someone without them.
Honestly this blog post is 90% gibberish. Skimming over it, I just see meaningless word salads like "navigat[ing] the current environment", "design[ing] a Surface for every person", and "stay[ing] connected to the people and content that matters".
Stop mistreating your customers, please
Not yet. A combination of work-from-home, a fairly limited lockdown and a variety of state and city schemes for income support for entrepreneurs, small business and a furlough program seem to have limited the impact for now. We’ll see in 5-6 months I guess.
How does anyone expect food delivery services to survive with only 5% fees? That's insanity. Uber has to also pay for engineers, sales/marketing to get customers/restaurants onto the platform, online infrastructure, customer service for both sides of the market, etc.

Delivery is expensive. It's time-consuming, and customers are rarely willing to pay the true cost of it.

Most of the restaurant delivery services were bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars last year. They've had a resurgence because of the Covid-19 but that's a blip compared to a normal situation.

If people think it doesn't cost that much money to operate, then all restaurants shouldn't have a problem having their own delivery service.
It’s disappointing that the SB3 seems to have the same screen and trackpad as the SB2. The screen has so much glare compared to the MBP and XPS, it makes dark mode unusable in most lighting situations. The trackpad is small and mediocre, it can’t reliably pick up two-finger right clicks. It’s a shame because I think the hardware is otherwise great.
Very, very good question. The long-story short is that I don't think there's an algorithm that can determine the completion of page-load with certainty for complex JS SPAs.

We fingerprint elements, check if the page is changing along the critical path and wait if it is, and look at network traffic.

We can't say with certainty, but we can form a good guess - the accuracy of that guess is always improving.

This is something I think would benefit from open-source collaboration, if we went down that route.
I switched to Windows full time a few years back. I started with WSL1, but ran into some serious bugs (that have since been fixed) and made the full jump fairly quickly.

I think a lot of folks take this path because it's just easier. The fact that I know I can do most of the stuff the same way I always have makes it an easier decision to make. I think there's also, for some people, an ideological component, that is, they're still using UNIX, it just happens to be in a Windows host, and that's easier to accept than come to terms with Windows just being a decent OS on its own merits. (I am not saying anyone in particular in this thread is that kind of person, of course.)
Be ready to say good it to a lot of apps.
These kind of things capture my mind so much. It's so easy imagining being that boy drawing something, compared to many other great-men historical artefacts.

A similar, but much more recent example, is the graffitiesque engraving by (the young) Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius in a stone pillar at the his local cathedral [0]/[1] in the end of the 1700's.

[0]: https://old.liu.se/berzelius?l=sv
[1]: https://www.facebook.com/linkopingsdomkyrka/photos/a.4234860...
> You can retrospectively get the control data for same time frame. This won't br same as placebo but still good.

No you can't and no it won't. Clinical study protocol documents are often thousands of pages long because they need to describe mundane procedures down to how doctors and nurses are supposed to draw the subjects' blood so that there aren't significant variations between participating hospitals. The point of a control group is to control as many variables as possible and placebos are only a small part of that. Selecting control groups is an entire subfield of modern medicine.

Many drugs with much more promising early results that were gathered under nearly ideal conditions (instead of the chaos of a pandemic) have failed hard in third phase trials.
I have a Surface Pro 7, their oversized tablet, after ditching my ipad pro out of frustration. I wanted something that had a nice pen but still had a real filesystem and I could easily load comics and movies on, use ssh, and was full featured enough that I wasn't required to lug a laptop with me.

And the surface pro is.. fine. Hardware wise it's great even, but my issue is overwhelmingly that Microsoft's default software makes a sad tablet experience. Their screen keyboards are garbage, the store is lackluster and the tablet mode does not play nicely with most apps leading to weird issues like not being able to leave the kindle app once it's fullscreened.

If Microsoft invested a bit more in improving the tablet experience, they could really eat some of Apple's marketshare.
I used to use vi all the time and the joke always was

"vi is a four letter word"
Yes.

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

Google, $50M; Marriott International, £99M; British Airways, £183M; 1&1 €9.5M; etc.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-search-... has like 10 different search engines, including Google, Bing, Baidu, and many anime-focused search engines.
You Don’t Need Transaction Rollbacks in Redis
DoorDash just gives away coupons and if you order frequently, DashPass is a great deal. I don't know how DoorDash is functioning in a way that is so much cheaper to me the consumer.

I'm surprised to learn that DoorDash doesn't have the resources as they are giving away a lot of coupons.
Lawyers know how to fight corporate entities. This tech doesn't have to be a corporate product. It could be a separate community repository somewhere, used only by those native gfx/wgpu users who opt into it.
> I thought that by large datasets you meant TB

Oracle DB has no problems with TB-sized datasets, and if you have that kind of data you're probably not worried about Oracle-sized licenses.

> That leaves only niches for oracle.

Why do people keep beating this dead horse? Oracle DB is backing a non-trivial % of global GDP in a large number of Fortune 500's. It's not niche, it's just not a tool you use for hosting WordPress, Magento, and RoR apps.
Response to Tim Bray's Departure
Researcher Behind ‘10k-Hour Rule’ Says Good Teaching Matters, Not Just Practice
This is about confidence not truth, confidence is built into ML, it's how it works... the problem is these solutions currently just quantize that output into a single result and obscure how close to the threshold of another possible answer it was.
The GDPR limits your rights insofar. You may find that "overbearing", I find it okay. Your rights end where my rights begin. Where the line is, is debatable, of course.

Remember that the law came only because web site owners took things way too far. Pendulums swing both ways.
Furthermore, we should be voting for representatives that simplify laws so more people can understand the legal situations they are exposed to.
They say that the system can be seen with the unaided eye. If I were to point my telescope directly at the black hole, what would I see? Nothing? Or a lensing effect of the stars behind it?
cron is a tool to schedule tasks

see: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/cron.8.html

and: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/crontab.5.html
Curious how all of these crazy interest movements will affect the housing market. Deflation sounds bad for housing values, but then again, it means interest rates will stay low, propping up values. And then there's the generally-crazy bay area market.
I'm not debating that there are a lot of projects written in C++. I only argue that C is enough to be able to learn about state-of-the-art tech in this area.

I'm not even going to debate C++'s merits at this point. Everybody's had enough of that already. There are people who stick to it and there are those who bailed after a while. It's just that, if I have a choice, I won't work with the people who belong to the former group.