skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe that's the idea.

It literally is. The post-war housing boom was meant to discourage activism by having workers tied to something they could lose.
You can, but this is discouraged. Unlike in other version management systems, Clojure tools do not use lockfiles; you're expected to be explicit about the version numbers you want.

https://nelsonmorris.net/2012/07/31/do-not-use-version-range...
The mystery of the pandemic's ‘happy hypoxia’
Many companies predicate things on you keeping your mouth shut, such as your severance.
I'm in the same boat and agree completely. I haven't owned a machine this bad since the last Dell laptop I bought in the early 2000s.
The Most Effective Quora Marketing Strategy Broken Down in 5 Steps
I wish I had that kind of time and exploratory spirit on my hands. Good job!
> In my opinion it was more from the perspective that minorities may have a more empathetic view on problems, after likely experiencing dealing with problems other more privileged people don't have to.

It's best to avoid making generalizations about people based on the color of their skin - even when you think it's a compliment.
But I didn't ask "when was there ever an acquisition of a small startup by a large incumbent that was successful?" I'm specifically thinking of when that small startup was then flooded with budget and people to meet aggressive growth targets.

I don't know about every item in your list, but I do know at least in some of those cases that the acquired company was largely left alone. They were perhaps given some integration goals, but the parent company specifically "left them alone" to not kill the secret sauce that made them successful in the first place.
The problem is that threatening doesn't mean much. The $5b isn't much in the grand scheme of things, and I doubt we'll be as "lucky" to get a judge that feels similarly next time.
> I have no idea why anyone would have anxiety about being in class, I don't think that's a common problem.

Like 1 in 5 college students[1], I have a diagnosed anxiety disorder. I frequently have anxiety in class, especially before the professor starts talking and is just scanning the room and occasionally making eye contact with me, or if I'm asked to interact with other students.

That said, I still think that MOOCs aren't remotely comparable to real college classes.

[1] pg. 16 - https://www.acha.org/documents/ncha/NCHA-II_Spring_2018_Refe...
No, some of the banks that get these artificially low interest rate loans from the FED would go bankrupt without them.

They're being propped up.
Is it right about time to switch to Catalina? I was excited until I read “comes with Catalina”. Suggestions?
Future telescopes to search for signs of life around white dwarf stars
I agree with your concern, but I would actually need some examples of YouTube enforcing this rule without nuance.

Questioning the validity of WHO's changing mask guidelines I can't imagine would get anyone banned.

Telling business owners to defy state orders and re-open nightclubs on vacuous constitutional grounds absolutely should get you booted.

If that's how YouTube is enforcing things, I don't see a problem with it. Icke's suspension isn't exactly the opportunity to call YouTube out, because this wasn't a questionable suspension. Until I see a questionable suspension, I don't feel compelled to complain much about YouTube's strategy here.
Demystifying the AI Infrastructure Stack
Very nice, thanks! Is that linked somewhere? I didn't see anything on GitHub.
I've been hosting my mail with Zoho for a couple years and I've not had any issues with them.
I really like Linux, but switched to macOS years ago because the quality of most Linux software outside of the GNU ecosystem is very unpredictable and commonly faulty. Companies seem to hate supporting Linux, and I've had enough distro updates break my OS in the past that eventually I just got beaten down. MacOS gives me a Unix shell, a consistent UI, and I've never had a system update lead to a black screen, or a new UI that I hate, or half my installed software being broken. Let's not even get started on the support for most Linux distros. Even Ubuntu has what I would consider to be dreadful support, unless maybe you're a corporate client of theirs.

Linux is good if you can configure it for a very specific purpose, like a server, or a graphics workstation, or even web development. For general purpose, its warts grow the more you use it. Hopefully someone has a dangerous looking Bash one-liner that will solve all your problems.
Managers can contribute to this but in my opinion it's a cultural inclination and we've all been thrust into it due to the pandemic. The forced move to WFH will be eye opening to everyone, managers included, and will also give credit to subordinates with cut and dry experience.
> breed, or maybe genetically modify, the relevant mosquitoes to make them incapable of carrying malaria

"Debug Project" is trying to do that (curiously, funded by.. Google): https://debug.com/
Nvidia Acquires Cumulus
Don’t Get Cursed by Dimensionality
Numbers favour other sources than labs, as a comment pointed out above. Just apllying logic, it is more likely that the virus jumped from bats to humans in the "wild".

Political convenience aside, the question whther the SARS-Cov-2 escaped from a lab or not doesn't seem to be that important in finding a solution / cure / vaccine. All it does is playing the blame game and distract from the real problems.
Me too. Also, the ability to explain things this way. It’s remarkable.
Ask HN: How do you conduct deep learning research?
My question is specifically about the evolution or life cycle of idea, from conceptualizing it to getting a (world class) research paper out of it.
What are the different stages involved?
What are hurdles in them?
Having your research paper as a running example would be immensely helpful and relatable.
I've tried multiple monitors a number of times through the years, and it's only been a net benefit when doing things like streaming and/or presenting via video conference (so you can have a preview monitor / live chat separate).

Other than that, my brain and neck both work a lot better with one large 4K display (currently 27" but I've been thinking about going 32").
As a long-time Apple user who switched to Windows/Linux after Apple decided to ditch discrete GPUs and open standards for graphics, 100% this. Razer Blades are the spiritual successors to the pre-unibody Macbooks.

That said, I've had terrible luck with Razer batteries, and their only warranty replacement option involves a multi-week turnaround. It's a good thing I'm pretty handy and replacements can be had on the usual sources.
So I was last in the office in early March. First it was a week of recommended WFH followed by a predictable shift to mandatory WFH but I'd already decided that NYC was not the place where I wanted to be when this all played out so I exiled myself.

I honestly don't know what going back to the office looks like at this point, both in timing and the logistics. The fact of the matter is that we have open plan layouts with minimal space per employee (basically a desk plus chair) because of cost. An office per employee simply doesn't scale for the size of the big tech companies if they want to have offices in coastal urban areas.

I haven't run the numbers on this but I'd guess it averages out at about 60sq ft per employee in the desk area and probably twice that once you factor in all the meeting rooms. It may even be as high as 150sq ft.

As an example since there are public numbers on this, Google's building on 111 8th Ave is, I believe, 2.1 million square feet of rentable space divided over 16 floors. Higher floors have smaller footprints so for the lower floors that's probably around 160,000 sq ft. I don't know the number of employees per floor but I believe it's around 1500 give or take so this would fit the estimate of 120-150sq ft per employee.

Google bought that building for $1.9B. It's probably appreciated some since then but probably not hugely, being commercial. Let's say it's $3B. That's a value of $1400/sq ft. Assume an 8% gross yield then 140sq ft of space costs ~$2M and has an opportunity cost of almost $160,000.

Doubling that space gets real expensive. Even if you're prepared to pay it, having room for the ~8000 employees you have gets impractical. 111 8th Ave is already one of the largest buildings in NYC (by rentable square feet). Google have already overflown to Chelsea Market and 85 10th Ave and probably more by now (I left ~3 years ago).

Social distancing is going to be a thing for the foreseeable future. People have this weirdly optimistic view that we can just develop a vaccine or an effective treatment for this. There are many diseases that have killed millions and been around for decades that still have no vaccine (eg HIV, malaria, dengue fever).

In fact, no coronavirus to date has had a vaccine developed for it.

It's unclear what will happen with Covid-19. will it mutate and become something you seasonally just "get" like the flu? We have flu vaccines but they're partially effective and the virus mutates such that you need a different vaccine every year.

Generally speaking, viruses tend to get less deadly over time (eg Spanish flu evolved into H1N1 eventually) but it doesn't seem like Covid-19 is particularly deadly now. You might point to the number of deaths in each country but the number of infections in almost all cases is underreported. Some don't even realize they've had it.

Or will herd immunity kick in at some point?

But I look at all this and wonder if I'll get back into the office this year.

Even when I do, I just don't think more space or private offices are in my future. I also don't foresee a WFH revolution. So it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
You mean that this quarter alone, they made $5B in pure profit? I'm not sure if that helps any argument against what I said.
The best way I can sell Thunderbolt 3/USB-C to myself is that at Apple's size, they need to be able to sell (to consumers, courts, governments) that they aren't being anti-competitive, so by switching to designs that are open and standardized (Thunderbolt 3 is a spec, not a patent) they can better sell their market dominance as not driven by patents and lawyers.
People could also stock up on dried beans if they are worried about future food shortages.
He specifically addressed this in the post. He tried that first.
The thing I dont understand about OSX is the Finder situation. It's just awful. Installation is awful, finding applications is awful, navigating to the system folders is awful.

It's very much like Windows and it's pretending Desktop is the root folder and then hiding everything behind databases of My Documents.

Dont make me jump through hoops to find computery stuff.
Yes: https://blog.horizon-eda.org/assets/pnp-export.png
With a tank of propane and a week’s shopping? Yes, bikes get you around just great, but a load of cargo, not so much. Here in Portugal, the Toyota Hilux is the standard vehicle - usually 80’s or early 90’s.
Depends on use cases. We switch between the xps-13 and starting now this at work.

We use 0 apple specific apps. We write python and Vue.js using pycharm.

So from a business use case, do you want windows, Linux, or Mac hot keys? Python and everything runs everywhere.

(Biggest problem is Windows Home doesn’t run Docker as well, but it can be worked around)
Given how helpless much of the world is against Malaria and how many people it continues to kill each year, this strikes me as one of the most significant scientific discoveries of our lifetime. Am I missing something?
What's the real value in paying more for this compared to getting a new MacBook Air?
I think, if it's not done on purpose, it's very convenient to those in power, so they don't want to stop doing it.

When most people cannot afford to express morals, you have a host of hungry attack dogs. Some of them start to rationalize that having morals is wrong, that caring about people is wrong because, after all, they can't afford it, so the government can't either.

And if there weren't people desperate for careers and education, the military wouldn't get enough volunteers. So it's very convenient to that whole system.

Propagating the myth of houses as an appropriate working-class investment also sustains this. Index funds are far more liquid, far more diverse, and don't require debt or even a large amount of cash to start with, but a large mortgage is a tight leash.
Seems a little barren... Is this some new product?
I've used LLVM for some light callgraph analysis to identify when hazardous functions can be called from a 'safe' function. The main application is for realtime audio processing where dynamic memory allocation, IO, and blocking locks can introduce bugs (due to their latency characteristics). Nothing all that fancy, though reconstructing class hierarchies, vtables, templates, etc was a learning curve.

repo: https://github.com/fundamental/stoat
This is the expected outcome after I read this:

https://anygoodthing.com/2020/03/12/please-do-a-bad-job-of-p...
You forgot that the Dell XPS 13 also has a touch screen... and there is a 2-1 model with a tablet mode and an (awful) pen.
To be fair to Oracle (not something I say very often) - I suspect most of their sales are business applications (ERP, CRM, financial) that happen to use their database engine as a back end.
Global Variables are often termed as evil. Considering the hurdles you'd face with them(when used in excess), what are your alternatives? Using Singleton Design Pattern--which is nothing but a fancy global or passing arguments like Dependency Injection?
TIL that downplaying the the flaws of your previous product in an official marketing release is Gaslighting.
Wait...is that a hard escape key on there?! Emacs users rejoice! :)
Ceiling, lights, windows, HVAC already exist. Wiring is already needed (data,power) The difference is some wallboard and a hollow-core door.

Don't underestimate the cost of that 8x8 cube, Its astronomical. Up to $10,000 though of course you can get crap for $500.

When I built our office out, it cost $150 per walled-off office plus door.
Even the last Pro will destroy the Air when it comes to something like video encoding, 3D rendering, etc. Anything that will run full-tilt for longer than 20 seconds.

The new Pro 13 (except for the most expensive configuration) have 8th generation CPUs, whereas the Air has 10th generation GPUs. Usually newer Intel generations have more extensive support for hardware encoding/decoding. The Air 2020 CPUs support AVX-512. The 2020 Airs have a faster GPU. Finally, the Airs have 3733 MHz LPDDR4X RAM and the Pros 2133 MHz LPDDR3. It's not always a given that these 8th generation Pros will be faster on a given task.

Compiling on multiple cores, most probably. Video encoding, decoding, etc. Not necessarily.

It is faster in things like Geekbench or browser benchmarks,

Single core, the Air 2020's CPU is a tad faster than the 8th generation that they put in these MacBook Pros. Multicore the Pros win, but by not that wide a margin.

For most people, the MacBook Pro 13" 2020 in the first two configurations (1499 and 1799) will be nearly equally fast for most practical purposes. So, it's mostly about whether you prefer the extra storage of the Air at the same price point or the Touch Bar. If you want something faster than ballpark Air, you should get the most expensive configuration or the Pro 16".
Wheel rims are aluminum, and spokes are stainless. They don't rust. Low spoke-count wheels are weaker and will go out of true faster, especially on potholed roads and with panniers.
I'm a happy Postgres user and recently did some work with a government agency using Oracle - the thing that shocked me most about Oracle was the lack of transactional DDL operations which was something I'd just taken for granted in the Postgres world.
2 seconds isn't instant.
Sure, I don't know whether this was an accident. But I'm really happy with how fast support reacted and how helpful it was. Was important for me to highlight that, to balance a bit the negative aspect mentioned in the writeup of giving away the C2 instance.

Their small DEV-instances seem to be comparable and to be a good alternative to the ARM64 offers, so I'm not sure how sad to be about that going away. It really was not 100% stable. I'll miss the bare metal aspect of the C2 instances though.
Yes but that's not their concern. It never was. We can now clearly see what the threshold is for management making such decisions. Workers complaining of work conditions? Research showing decreased productivity? Nope. Not going to do anything until there's live video on the 5 o'clock news showing body bags being loaded onto refrigerator trucks.

The saying goes, "Safety regulations are written in blood". This is one of the many reasons unions are useful even if you make a great salary. It gives you someone on site whose job is to look out for you, and it gives you a lever with which to institute necessary workplace changes.
lol...great story
I’ve always found the 13” Pros to be the “worst of both worlds” compromise. You don’t get the svelte lightness of the Air, or the generous desktop or raw power of the big boy. Whatever your priority is, it’s just not there. A 14” screen would have at least differentiated the product.

I think a lot of these are bought by corporate bean counters and people who assume that Airs must be awful if they’re the most affordable.

(Yes, I’ve used them, my current “burner” is a ‘17 escape key model)
Yeah man. He let those emotions overwhelm him. Not like us: perfectly rational actors free of emotion.
Tim Bray? Won’t matter to his employability at all. May even help it, and low pass filter places he wouldn’t want to work anyway.
Norway's closed source Covid tracker app is found to have security issues
I thought VCs were interested in companies with superstar teams with a killer idea, an established and lucrative monetization mechanism, an established defendable innovative product, in a global market with hockey stock growth and for some reason still willing to sign ridiculously unfavorable investment terms with no downside or risk for the VC at a very low price, but at a very high price to the next round of investors to drive up ponzi scheme valuations. Oh and a CEO/founder who at first they love but later can be shoved out by the board. Or have I been watching too much Silicon Valley?
Sure, I'll grant you that, but it's much harder to give up something you already have than to abstain from something you don't have.
> I've seen companies where this happens, and people have Friday afternoons off because they already did their hours that week.

How is that a bad thing?
The Walls of Japan
Or you could donate directly [0] to the NHS instead:

[0] https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/ClapForOurCarers
Isn't it fairly common for config management tools to use agents? Chef and Puppet both do.

Once your configuration management is tied into your CI/CD pipeline, I don't really see much of a difference between an agent running on each machine vs a master node that has a root ssh key into your whole fleet.
I still remember introducing you to Urban, the main LibrePCB developer, at FOSDEM after meeting you at 33c3 (was it 33c3?) the same year. It was fun listening to the two of you talking about your design decisions, where you came up with almost identical solutions (UUIDs for library elements for example) and where you went different paths.

We also talked about ways to increase collaboration between the two tools. A few ways I could see is:

* Router: Extracting the KiCad router into a separate repository / library so it can be used and developed by the different projects.

* Gerber Compatible Stroke fonts: Would be nice to have one font specification and implementation to be used for PCBs. LibrePCB started the FontoBene (https://github.com/fontobene) project to do just this, but currently LibrePCB is the only user of it.

* Regular exchange of ideas and domain specific problems / challenges and solutions. This already happened a few times at c3 and FOSDEM.
"But, indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries. To speak only of religious opinions: the Reformation broke out at least twenty times before Luther, and was put down. Arnold of Brescia was put down. Fra Dolcino was put down. Savonarola was put down. The Albigeois were put down. The Vaudois were put down. The Lollards were put down. The Hussites were put down. Even after the era of Luther, wherever persecution was persisted in, it was successful. In Spain, Italy, Flanders, the Austrian empire, Protestantism was rooted out; and, most likely, would have been so in England, had Queen Mary lived, or Queen Elizabeth died. Persecution has always succeeded, save where the heretics were too strong a party to be effectually persecuted. No reasonable person can doubt that Christianity might have been extirpated in the Roman empire. It spread, and became predominant, because the persecutions were only occasional, lasting but a short time, and separated by long intervals of almost undisturbed propagandism. It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favourable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it."

-- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty https://www.utilitarianism.com/ol/two.html
The great things:

The new keyboard is always welcome. The butterfly keyboard was a huge pain. An escape key is definitely something that most of us have been waiting for !

The bad:
I don't get it why Apple is still sticking with a sub-standard 720p facetime camera when they can easily upgrade that. For this video-call covid situation, a nice camera would have been nice
Cubicle furniture is astronomical. The cube walls themselves are astronomical. Some studs, wallboard and a hollow-core door are cheap.

The wiring etc are needed for both. Folks keep trying to refactor stuff into office costs, but that's all needed for both.
I heard from someone that the "biological clock" was made up after the war to convince women to quit their careers.

Hearing all this, and hearing that homosexuality used to be tolerated, it's scary to wonder how much of the status quo is not just _a_ social construct, but purposely constructed for someone's benefit, and recently. And we're expected to presume that it's natural, or at least old, and therefore correct.
around where i live most people almost certainly know someone who can help them out with all that stuff for a cut of the bounty...
That is DDR4 (no LP). MacBook Air 2020, MacBook Pro 16", and the most expensive MacBook Pro 13" configuration use LPDDR4.
I tried with my 2015 MBP, and was offered £180 by Apple. The average eBay price for the same model seems to be around £450, so the eBay route would be worth the risk for me.

Also, when selling second hand, at least I know it's being reused not just recycled.
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Falsehood can get a bad one far, especially in a tactical sense.

Truth is the better strategic bet, every time.
Who is refusing to work on it? The issue tracker shows lots of UI improvement activity.

Is there work being done on the project that you feel should be prioritized below certain UI changes?
Std: Find() and Memchr() Optimizations (2016)