skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many contracts still come with a notice period. So many people have contractual rights to a notice period. No requirement by law, yes.

Most contracts with a notice period still allow the company to just pay it out and send you home on the spot.
Would be so cool if they reverse the spec usage.

robots.txt
/* TEAM */

Your title: Chief Robot

humans.txt

user-agent:*
Disallow: /*
The custom hardware isn't in the processor chips, it's in the interconnect. In a lot of ways they are groups of coordinated commodity hardware. It's the coordination that's the secret sauce and what you're paying for. Not every problem works great in the tree interconnects you see in data centers, so these systems are big hypercubes. Also the latency is more like PCIe than TCP. In fact PCIe is closer to Infiniband than original PCI in a lot of ways.
Try to go build your factory on top of an existing factory. I suspect someone will stop you.
Interesting, because I think about it the other way: the offset tells you between which power of two you're in:

* [2^-127, 2^-126]
* ...
* [1, 2]
* [2, 2^2]
* [2^2, 2^3]
* ...
* [2^128, 2^129]

and the window tells you where you are in this "window". You have 8 bits to figure out where you are in there, so it's obvious that you have much more precision if you are in the window [1, 2] than in the window [2^128, 2^129]
I was initially waiting for this new 13", because I was finally needing a MacBook. I got tired of waiting and, as these things usually happened, bought an upgraded and battery-replaced 2015 13" MBP a week ago with 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD for a grand. Do you know what that RAM and storage space costs on the new 13" model? More than double that. I'm pretty okay with my decision.
>This might be a super dumb question, but are super computers worth it?

Yes, because that's where you get innovation in architecture. You have to understand the reason commodity hardware caught up supercomputers was because of getting lucky with materials. AKA the mateirals cpu's were made out of was easily shrinkable and frequency kept going up because of dennard scaling until roughly 2006. With the end of dennard scaling, research into new processor materials and computer architectures is the main issue. Single threaded performance is a huge priority because most problems we are interested in cannot be made parallel and hence do not benefit much from multicore.

There are also things you are not hearing about and aren't privy too.

Basically computers can run much faster if you use incredibly expensive or experimental materials. The major roadblock is really mass production. I'm certain there are black projects doing all sorts of custom hardware behind the scenes, most likely for military applications.

But the expense to run those custom machines makes it non viable for anything like mass adoption.
Lots of reasons.

Font rendering for all of unicode is extremely hard.

https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

Multi-language input is extremely hard

https://lord.io/blog/2019/text-editing-hates-you-too/

Having to download an extra meg or 10 of code does not make your website responsive to start, worse if you're updating it constantly so you're users have to re-download that code every few days, hours.

Support for assistive technologies disappears. A page of HTML is relatively easy to scan for text to read or turn to brail or translate to another language. A screen (not a page) of pixels is not.

Similarly extensions all break. Extensions work because there is a known structure to the page (HTML)

UI consistency disappears. Of course pages already have this issue but it will be much much worse if every site rolls it's own pixel rendering GUI because none of the standard keys will work. Ctrl/Cmd-Z for undo Ctrl/Cmd-A for select all? Similarly maybe the user has changed those keys or is using some other assistive device which all works because things are standardized.

Letting the browser handle what's best for the device probably disappears. Cleartype for fonts? Rendering Text or SVG at the user's resolution (yes that can be handled by the page but will it? up to the site)

Password managers break including the browser's built in one. There's no text field to find so no way to know if this is the place to fill them in.

Spell checking breaks. Same as above.

Basically your site will suck for users if you do this. Some will say some frameworks will come up that try to solve all of these issues but that will just mean every pages is on a different version of the framework with different bugs not yet resolved. Sounds like hell.
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Our startup used this setup in 2013 when I guess it was a much more hipster thing to do! We used Cloud9 connected via SSH to our sandbox AWS account, edited code in the cloud, restarted the Node server running dedicated to each developer's sandbox, and had a sandbox URL per dev (e.g., jake-dev.startup.co) to see the code update live.
Most of the cost of a supercomputer is from energy consumption
I'm far from an expert here, but I guess it really depends on how well you can scale performance out of a single machine. For "embarrassingly parallel" problems that's "trivial", but if you constantly need data that would end up on a different machine then it might start making sense to have specialized hardware that greatly reduced those costs.

That being said, I'm also on your side in guessing that the problems that are money-wise worth running on a supercomputer are getting pretty limited as commodity hardware improves.
Apparently it includes minion-master interaction. If that’s to be “hardened” over SSH, what’s the point of all the salt keys?
This is what I like to bring up every time people say the GDPR imposes no costs.

On the other hand, like any other regulation, it also becomes a barrier to entry for new players that have to expend engineering and compliance efforts.

That said, I'm wholly for data protection, data portability, and privacy. It's just a nuanced subject that is more complicated than it seems.
Supercomputers are incrementally less custom over time. Slingshot is a good example of this, reusing many parts of the Ethernet protocol and even parts of a commodity Broadcom chip design. The rest of the Cray Shasta system is built with off-the-shelf CPUs and GPUs (although custom HPC GPUs are coming from AMD and Intel).

Clearly the customers (mostly governments) think it's worth it. They also buy commodity clusters in addition to supercomputers so they're very aware of the differences. The biggest difference is the network and that's why Cray is developing that part themselves; some simulations are network-bound and using a commodity network it would either cost more than a supercomputer (due to lower efficiency) or it would never reach the desired performance at all (due to poor scaling).
That's fair. Maybe it's that I see very few resources on learning programming.
PHP as a language had inherently insecure designs such as register_globals and RCE in unserialize().

When working on reviews, it's often as easy as grepping for "unserialize" and working your way from there for an easy bounty.

However, PHP has matured a lot. There is not a hint of register_globals as of now, and we have proper serializers, in addition to RCE-free improvements to original unserialize().

With native support for proper password hashing, sodium, and other improvements lately, one could argue that PHP is one of the most secure languages out there.
Well, at least they replaced the trees instead of just removing them.
What are some links to these sorts of articles popping up on Hacker News?
Found my way here from that thread too.
I'm sure the Linux kernel would never be compromised by state actors, even if a retired US Army general was on the board of directors[1] of the most popular Linux distro, or that the US' most infosec oriented intel agency didn't come up with the main method for RBAC with it[2]. Or that hardware and the numerous bits of firmware that control it would ever get back-doored by any state actor!

"OpenBSD co-founder Theo de Raadt, cited as a top el8 target, angrily refused to discuss the compromise in late July of a file server maintained by the open-source, Unix-based operating-system project. On Aug. 1, a dangerous Trojan horse program was discovered amid the code for OpenBSD, which is used by thousands of organizations and renowned for its security.

While de Raadt wouldn't comment on whether there were any suspects in the case, the lead article in the latest el8 newsletter, published in early July, contains an obvious smoking gun. The article begins with several lines of screen-display from what appears to be an OpenBSD.org system. The "w-command" output suggests that attackers had access to one of de Raadt's accounts."[3]

[1]https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/shelton

[2]https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/research/selinux/documentatio...

[3]https://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/acmnews/msg00221.html
This works during template instantiation. So your macros can respond to types and values from such parameters. Also it seems to know about scopes.
Linux will always lag, never lead, at problems where there are no paid developers, like the non-ChromeOS, non-Android user experience.
The Future Called: It Wants to Work from Home
Did you consider that AWS profits might be growing because everyone and their mom and their grandma are sitting on the Internet now?
Which one of Lenin's books do you have in mind?
I haven't read any personally, but he's not usually referenced with any of the others.

Clausewitz, on the other hand, definitely qualifies, although it's a much longer read.
So Trump was right after all. Guess no newspaper will report that..
The cost of reopening the economy, in lives
What were you guys thinking when you intended to upvote this post on Hacker News?
I have a System76 fully loaded little NUC. It is a beast, extremely quiet, and was a lot cheaper than a Mac. System76 customer support is really really good. You send an email and you get a response back from a developer pretty quick. I've been pretty satisfied so far. They don't make their own hardware, but they make sure a customized Ubuntu distro (Debian and Fedora are also supported) is silky smooth on all their systems. You pay a little extra, but the process was so painless and still a lot cheaper than Apple, so I'm happy.
Isn't this exactly what tools like SCons and Bazel are supposed to do? Rather than writing your own
This was an extremely clarifying comment.

I've posted it as a separate story, I wonder if that will work? For now at least it seems I cannot add comments there.
Firefox uses Direct2d on windows, while Chrome will just use Skia.
The @include thing makes me wonder if a circle library could compete with modules.
Skyscrapers and multistory industrial centers with multiple tenants already exist.

But really? The thing most preventing you from starting a factory today is... because you can't find the land? Alright then.
The lack of tb3 on the lemur is seriously discouraging me. I’m thinking about building a headless server and just xfowarding.

This way I can run a win10 be for games too
That is a...wildly imaginative take.

Tesla sales are a fraction of any of the big three in terms of sales or revenue.

They sold 192,000 vehicles in the US in 2019. Each of the Big Three sold well over three million.

Tesla currently loses $2500 on every vehicle they sell
I got comfortable with Lisp/Scheme using DrRacket. It is actually very helpful for beginners. I think you will benefit by learning functional programming this way, scheme is very simple and effective.

https://racket-lang.org/
I guess you can use the word "native" to mean whatever you want, but I assure that (as a former Mozilla developer) if you claim "Firefox uses native controls" (because internally it calls into platform APIs for some rendering sometimes), people are going to get mad at you.
Not all customers are cool with this approach.
Leptitox Review 2020
See dang's answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087284

It actually clarifies a whole lot.
That's extremely embarrassing. I would like to apologize, but I do not have a twitter account.

FWIW (not much, there isn't an excuse), I was going through an extremely rough time in my life. I had recently been disowned by my family for leaving their religion, and I had just begun to work for the guy I was talking about in this thread. I was generally a miserable prick back then, and while I can't say that I have eliminated that tendency entirely, it is something I have been consciously working on with the help of a therapist for about 4 years now.
http://www.paulgraham.com/accents.html
I had the same problem and decided to begin with fundamentals. I read "types and programming languages" by Benjamin C. Pierce and then things started to make sense.
> There was a non-statistically significant trend towards survival in all groups, which will have to be clarified in subsequent studies.
The longest meetings I've ever been in were while working remote. Major sev 1 outage bridges with 200+ attendees where it takes 6+ hours (My longest was 27 hours, and that was after demanding to my boss I finally take a break to get some sleep, and the problem still wasn't resolved for another two hours. Beat my previous longest Sev 1 by 3 hours). to get the right people to join / figure out what's going on / get someone's attention long enough to work on your problems instead of other departments? So fun. /s
This isn't quite correct.

Peterson wasn't removed, he left in protest, along with Sam Harris and others, after Carl Benjamin ("Sargon of Akkad") was removed over what Patreon considered to be a policy breach. [1]

I'm not expressing any position on whether or not the Carl Benjamin ban was valid, I'm just wanting to correct the record.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/patreon-crowdfunding-plat...
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The earlier the better. Give us our Trump pills!
I used C++ professionally for over 20 years until recently.

What pleasant surprise(s) exactly are you talking about?

Actually, never mind.

After a year of Rust I see myself touching C++ code next when I'm 70 and they need some old farts to fix code no one can or wants to touch any more.

And they pay five digits/day (adjusted for inflation) for that service by that time.
Now that will be the only 'pleasant surprise' I presage coming from C++ to me in the foreseeable future. ;)
This thread is about innovation, not sales.
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How do you measure innovation? American companies are on average far wealthier than companies in Europe and spend more in R&D as a result.
Can you program tempo envelopes?
Working from home has many benefits and I prefer it but I'm more than ready to return to the office. This entire WFH situation has made me realize that my coworkers are absolutely awful at communicating.

Absolute basic things like due dates are not communicated, attention to detail is slipping, responsiveness is low. Things I didn't have a problem with because I could just walk over to your desk ask you to explain something to me. Now I have the most difficult time wringing basic information out of people.
In total it was about $3k. So not cheap, but also not a real lab budget by any means.
Is it ok if I ask your YOE and stack?
I’m so ready to get past observational studies to real proper double-blind research, The first should go to pre-print next week.

This is hopeful though.
> The key phrase is: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> we mean intellectual interest, not all kinds of interest

> For example, there is social interest (the sort of thing that leads to celebrity gossip).

> These things all have their place, but not here.

I'd challenge the idea that this got upvoted for intellectual interest or that it belongs here.
Abstract:

Background: There is no treatment proven effective against COVID-19. Several drugs with in vitro potential against SARS-CoV-2 virus have been proposed. Hydroxychloroquine has in vitro anti-viral and immunomodulatory activity, but there is no current clinical evidence of its effectiveness changing the outcome of the disease. Methods: We enrolled all 18-85 years old inpatients from Central Defense Hospital “Gómez Ulla”, Madrid, Spain, who were hospitalised for COVID-19 and had a definitive outcome (dead or discharged). We used a statistical survival analysis to detect treatment differences associated with in-hospital death. Results: We analysed first 220 medical records. 166 patients met the inclusion criteria. 48,8 % of patients not treated with HCQ died, 22% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine (p=0,002). According to clinical picture at admission, hydroxychloroquine increased the mean cumulative survival in all groups from 1,4 to 1,8 times. This difference was statistically significant in the mild group. Conclusions: in a cohort of 166 patients from 18 to 85 years hospitalised with COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine treatment with 800mg added loading dose increased survival when patients were admitted in early stages of the disease. There was a non-statistically significant trend towards survival in all groups, which will have to be clarified in subsequent studies.
“ Age distribution according to the severity at admission was homogeneous between HCQ and non- HCQ treatment groups when the clinical picture was mild (57,6 years HCQ – 58,4 years non-HCQ, p=0,865) or moderate (63,8 years HCQ – 70 years non-HCQ, p=0,269). ”

Those are some high p-values. Makes sense with a small control group of 43 people.
This paper can be put in the bin labeled “no statically significance”
For many problems in HPC the bottleneck is the network. The compute node are relatively classical commodity CPU(/GPU). But without a (good, custom) network, you can't achieve much.
Sure, sure. As soon as you replace megatons of code running all kinds of stuff. I'd suggest finishing off COBOL for starters.
Opera has the same functionality for dark mode.
The employment contract is usually for an indeterminate amount of time. Breaking that contract is why severance pay is required.
Spending on research and development is an awful proxy for results delivered by said R&D, which is what we would actually want to measure if we're looking for innovation relative to GDP.
There's ongoing work to add support for generating arbitary types at compile time: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/383.
Mine has an annoying quirk. When I switch to Firefox and type something in the address bar it doesn't work. It still seems to be trying to load the page from last time I was in the browser and forgets my query entirely until it has finished whatever is on its todo list then I can use it. Hopefully this is fixed soon, it makes casual searches annoying.
The hilarity is that most business environments could benefit from the same networking "tricks" used by HPC, but don't bother to set any of it up.

I've even seen a few places that have even purchased the prerequisite hardware but then never turned the features on.

Things like hardware flow control, cut-through switching, jumbo frames, SR-IOV, RDMA, etc... are just a few checkboxes away and can give even small VMs crazy good bandwidth and latency.
“This version is not peer-reviewed”

Here’s the problem with preprints like this:

In an earlier era, issues with the Santa Clara study would have been addressed during peer review—the process in which scientific work is assessed by other researchers before being published in a journal. But like many COVID-19 studies, this one was uploaded as a preprint—a paper that hasn’t yet run the peer-review gauntlet. Preprints allow scientists to share data quickly, and speed is vital in a pandemic: Several important studies were uploaded and discussed a full month before being published.

Preprints also allow questionable work to directly enter public discourse, but that problem is not unique to them. The first flawed paper on hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19 was published in a peer-reviewed journal, whose editor in chief is one of the study’s co-authors.[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-...
Ask HN: Remote work in Bay Area after Coronavirus?
I am tiered of seeing thread after thread by VCs on Twitter about how bay area will have mass outflow after Coronavirus. As remote work becomes normal, no one will want to live here.

I do think prices are crazy but I would any day live in a smaller place near SF then move to suburban ohio in 5 bedrooms house.

What are other pros of living in bay area after remote becomes normal?
Health care is about $500 a month for someone in their 30s in the USA who is healthy. That doesn’t make up $125k.
Not privy of their figures but what are they gonna do with the 75% of workforce? Maybe I'm biased related to where I'm sitting, but looks like everything has stopped, travel especially. And looks like 2020 at least will stay that way.

Of course they can't just shut down....they have to hope and be ready.
I just saw this story popping up in a completely different place.

Either this is a globally interesting story, or someone here and someone there happens to pull stories from the same source, or someone’s flexing propaganda muscle
Please educate yourself on statics and read the paper.
Obvious points:

- It’s a pre-print

- Not reviewed

- Way too small group sizes to be meaningful
Same here. I was hoping that since these are "recommended" addons, perhaps they had negotiated with the developers to make them freely available and just included them in the build as features the user can enable if desired.
I stopped reading several links from HN today when it was clear the author wasn't getting to the point. If they had told me the point at the top I might or might not have continued to read but at least they would have gotten their point to across. As it is they got nothing across.
I take every study with a massive grain of salt, [especially one this size], until solid meta-analysis is done, but this is more promising than I expected for hydroxychloroquine without zinc:

>Conclusion: in a cohort of 166 patients from 18 to 85 years hospitalised with COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine treatment with an 800mg added loading dose increased the cumulative mean survival according to the diagnosis of severity at the beginning by 1.4 to 1.8 times. This difference was statistically significant when the clinical picture at admission was mild.
Chanakya and Nana Fadnavis.
Chanakya has written "Arthashastra" and "Chanakya Niti".
Not sure about Nana.
Could not find what you have quoted in article. What are you referencing?
Or that people moving into the city/state are paying moving services while those leaving are DIY moving.
They're getting good terms on the debt. During the recent Berkshire shareholder meeting Warren Buffett mentioned that Berkshire Hathaway raised a few billion in additional capital despite already having cash reserves of over $120 billion, simply because it's a good time to be a borrower.

As I understand it, this is largely due to the Federal Reserve signalling their intent to act as a backstop to the bond market due to the impact of COVID-19.
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Add 94.16.117.236 archive.vn in your /etc/hosts
Do you think there was anything in particular that biased the N64 emulator scene to be more drama-filled than some of the others? I never followed it that closely; I just remember that Project64 seemed to go for a really long time without official updates, IIRC.

OT but this does take me back - who remembers the drama with Sparcade?
So this is quite a bit different and more limited than "If the company goes bankrupt, so does he." and closer to "I would imagine if a director breaks the law, only then he could be personally liable.", for example Adam Neumann might have had problems if WeWork was a German GmbH.
They're meant to be high. This means "we didn't find a detectable difference in age distribution between the groups" and therefore that the results are (hopefully) not confounded by age.