skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Flu" hit me hard at the beginning of the year or end of 2019. Dry cough, etc...

"Flu" hit hard my mother that was vaccinated against flu

My father, as usual, didn't even noticed any flu. He was following a sintrom preventive treatment... a standard practice in several countries like... mumble, mumble. Let me take a look to something...

Uh, oh... "Warfarin was used predominantly in the UK and Italy (74.9% and 62.0%, respectively), phenprocoumon in Germany (74.1%), acenocoumarol in Spain (67.3%), and fluindione in France (61.8 %)".

Source (2014): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24651882

How long it would take to cross "anticoagulant type of treatment" databases (including "none") with "killings by covid"?
The biggest problem preteen me faced as a curious and voracious reader was not knowing what I didn't know. With limited experience and limited knowledge of the world, I didn't know what phenomenon were actually interesting to me.

So, I became an limited expert in medieval weaponry, which didn't even serve me well in later D&D sessions because a "long sword is a sidearm damn it". Other kids became experts in dinosaurs.

How many kids would actually pursue learning about the phenomenon of "cafeteria services" and would that actually be something that was taught, that just seems ludicrous on the face of it.

Also, I have ADHD, the idea of pre-diagnosis me being dropped into this environment makes me wonder; would I have done better or far, far worse.
Anyone got any thoughts on how this might be interesting in terms of realtime rendering and visual effects?

It mentions the main cost being the construction of bounding volume hierarchies which I think is what RTX has got support for in silicon?
Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management
I've been working on implementing the compile-time approach to memory management described in this thesis (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf) for some time now - some of the performance results look promising! (Although some less so...) I think it would be great to see this taken further and built into a more complete functional language.
I was hoping for a simple rebuttal here with some stats showing where 'most of' the money went/isn't wasteful instead of one running away from the burden of proof.
>Does anyone enjoy digital amnesia?

I think most people would want amnesia for certain memories like traumatic events. E.g. a romantic interest rejected you, or football quarterback throws an interception and needs to forget it to fully concentrate on the next play.

For most things, I wish I had more digital documentation of my past life. There were places I visited once that I wish I had photos for. There were people that were important in my life but I forgot their names and never wrote them down. I started keep a daily journal for the last 10 years and it's been so useful that I wish I had been doing that since I was child. If I had a git repo for everything single piece of code I wrote since I was a kid, that would be cool for me to revisit.

Back to your point, another type of purge that's useful are open projects that just nag you. For example, I had a "home automation" project on my todo list for years. In addition to taking space in brain, there were half-assembled open boxes of electronics on the shelf for years as physical reminders of that unfinished task. I finally decided to be realistic about my enthusiasm for that project and just abandon it. I sold the electronics and I feel better now. If I later decide to tackle it again, there will be newer and better technology anyway.

I also had a bookshelf of foreign languages for years that I thought I'd learn for foreign travel. After the COVID-19 crisis, I decided to give them away since I won't be traveling overseas for years. Now their absence no longer remind me of things I never got around to.

Purging bad emotions and unrealistic projects -- yes. Purging life data -- generally no.
> Downvotes don't mean censorship.

Good question. I think it does if downvotes result in inability to express an opinion (as opposed to simply having downvotes shown).

If downvotes are used to suppress freedoms then downvoting is a means of censorship. In other words, there is no big difference between prohibiting something by one person (dictatorship) or by 10 persons (collective dictatorship) (if it is not prohibited by law of course).
Totally agree on size, but i quite prefer the dithered look over the highly visible jpg artifacts
Researchers map tiny twists in “magic-angle” graphene
For the kind of site described here, there are plenty of CDNs which will just treat it as a rounding error in terms of their running costs, if at all it costs anything, and give it to you for free
Ah, downvoted. ;)

Sorry HN! Of course I meant that it's actually just a complete coincidence that so many women leave tech after having children. We all just choose this completely on our own and childcare is not a factor in the least. There's literally nothing we could do about this completely natural and voluntary situation. It's not even worth asking the question.

Hammer it, lads. Happy to go to zero!
Are your iMessage encryption keys stored in iCloud? Or is a seperate copy of your messages (encrypted with a key Apple controls) uploaded to iCloud for sync?

Edit:

> Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.

So Messages in iCloud is end-to-end encrypted, but if you enable iCloud Backup (a different product/feature), then your backup will include the key used to encrypt it.
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No, it is not intended to be badly or awkwardly named. It really is the case that properly invalidating caches is surprisingly hard to do and is the root cause of many, many bugs. Of course, the term is intended to be taken broadly: "cache invalidation" includes everything from CPU level cash coherence issues with multi-processors to the maintenance of ACID compliance in a database, and probably even includes cases where a mutable variable is reused incorrectly.
You should look at this from a military rather than a commercial point. The idea is Europe should always be able to feed itself, even if major trading partners disappear. Propping up local farmers, large and small, is the idea.
If its done well people would never leave school :)
>> Developers tend to just assume that a license is valid

They also tend to assume that if the license is valid then the code is also not implementing any unlicensed patents.
If you ask my 7yo: Skip Tutorial. Become Super Saiyan.
I remember this interesting read about Terry Davis and TempleOS from Vice: God's Lonely Programmer - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-progra...

It was discussed in HN (2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658283
Yes, we could all share and meet everyone's needs. It's just that that would essentially mean that a subset of "us" should "share" while the rest does not contribute.

Mind you, I'm not talking about people who are unable to contribute because of illnesses, age or handicaps. I'm talking about people who absolutely could contribute, but choose not to because their needs are met even if they don't and contributing does, for them, not hold a positive result: have to expend energy, have to do something that isn't immediately pleasurable, am not getting huge loads of money and power in return. They politely thank you for the offer but choose to live comfortably off of taxes.

The direct consequence of that behavior is that others have to work more hours per week to pick up the slack. Even if you removed the top 5% and nationalized all companies, you wouldn't change this simple fact. And it will remain exactly the same as long as they are paid to do nothing. UBI is the plan to codify paying them to do nothing.

So sure, if you had everyone contributing, everything would be rosy and lots of things would be possible. Let's start with getting everyone to contribute, and not with changing the system as if they would and then hope that they maybe will. Because they won't.
They have job ads and "normal" ads. You get an opt-in if you have enough rep.
I recall a French website like craiglist but only for donation, a tad niche but well known enough. Everything there was free for taking.

A decent half of listing were decent IMO, but oh boy, the other half were odd stuff and/or in such conditions that I can't imagine anybody taking them (even if paid to). The adage you get what you pay for holds true.

Funny enough, it's even worse the other way around, trying to give (good) items for free. People are atrocious. They book to pick up and don't show up. When they show up, they're often empty handed and act like unbelievable idiots. "Oh it's the fridge from 3 years ago, not the newer model, nevermind not interested." Can't believe this happening if I didn't hear it with my own ears. Anyway, they came without appropriate transportation, couldn't pick up a fridge/couch no matter what.
They can, but the tor servers cannot federate with non-tor -servers (how would the non-tor -servers connect to the tor-servers?)
tesla stock price is too high imo
1500 is not a lot of people. If that’s the best EFF can come up with on its mailing list then I think this may be an issue they should rethink. Not that I disagree, I completely agree, but it doesn’t seem like they are going about it the right way.
Off-topic: can you please share where the materials (curriculum, books/ref, etc..) of coding classes at Finnish schools can be found?
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I didn't realize he died. It's a real shame that his illness had control of him.
Some time ago I published four small articles[1] about templeOS. Unfortunately I had less time to deal with this OS. I can only guess that you should have a look at this OS. If you ignore all the religious information you can experiment a lot. Even though Terry was very ill, I have an incredible respect for what he did. There are not many people who have put their own OS on its feet and even implemented very unusual ideas of their own. All this running on ring 0 is pretty exciting.

[1] https://alligatorbrowser.github.io/voidnill.github.io/a/a32....
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You can definitely claim it if, say, a CUA codon is replaced by a CUG codon because both of those code for Leucine and the resulting proteins will be absolutely identical.
Do you live in Sweden?

A lot of people seem to be using it as some example of a country who haven't introduced lockdown measures, whereas in reality they are actually self-isolating and social distancing, just like everyone else.

Worth noting also that Sweden has the 6th highest case fatality rate in Europe (other Nordic countries are near the bottom of that list).
Vulkan is also unpleasant to use directly.
If WebGPU takes off, I'd bet that becomes the common API everyone codes against, because it will be everywhere and its a better developer experience.
They aren't getting lower counts of traffic. But QA traffic is not their primary revenue source. Job ads and SO for teams are.
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Are we really expected to believe anything the WHO says at this point? They are unreliable narrators saying whatever the CCP/China wants them to say at best, maybe outright malicious at worst.
This is a quarterly update on the entire company, and I don’t think the main purpose of this update was to announce layoffs. I’m sure there were internal communications about the layoffs that were more pointed and had a different tone.

I agree on the paragraph you pulled out. This writing style is more formal and “corporate” than preferred, but it’s not inherently terrible.
> You can do one thing in JetBrains: edit code. That's it.

No, you can do more, it's just usually people don't have the mindset to do more. And to be fair, JetBrains software is not meant to do that, so it's harder to do it, preventing the people from developing the mindset. It's a loop.
SpaceX fires up Starship rocket twice in 30 hours ahead of next big tests
> Separate address spaces are definitely needed these days in order to avoid Spectre vulnerabilities

That's nonsense! Separate address spaces have nothing to do with hardware vulnerabilities. The MMU uses address spaces to isolate processes from each other, which is required for proper multi-tasking.

If you don't use process isolation, every task can overwrite the heap and stack of every other running task (including the OS kernel and drivers!). Information disclosure (in this context) is only relevant in virtual environments, where multiple tenants have to be strictly isolated from each other and affects (hardware) VM supervisors.

It's a different topic entirely.
A thing about these fast, static and minimalist websites (which I love) is that they use a monospaced font (which I don't love) instead of proportional, which I find easier to read. See http://antirez.com/ as another ecxample

It's not a criticism but an observation that giving up on so much modern junk seems to mean discarding something I consider good; better fonts.

Not intended to be provocative, just a note.
You're right when it comes to hooks vs classes, that is a major plus. But this is not the aspect I was commenting on, I was specifically addressing the idea of custom hooks as a trivial replacement for Redux:

> One of the problems Redux is used to solve (as a global store) is peace of mind that you won't need to refactor large swathes of component trees to reparent state and callbacks that need to be shared or persisted across different subtrees as new business requirements arise

> Hooks (especially custom hooks, which are just a composition of other hooks packaged together as a single function) make the reparenting/hoisting/anchoring of state and callbacks trivial compared to other mechanisms, providing similar peace of mind that you're not boxing yourself into an inextensible component tree. (This is regardless of context; passing down props isn't a large pain point, and is often misguided to try to solve because it leads to importable components and hidden contracts.)

My earlier example was to show that re-parenting/hoisting when you replace a global store like Redux, with custom hooks using local state, is not straightforward, and unsafe except for very localized components where you shouldn't be using Redux anyway.

So you'll eventually end up doing prop drilling, or resorting to Context, or back to Redux; in the end hooks did not solve those issues as you proposed (other than the increased portability compared to classes, which you already have with redux or context).
> maybe they'd be more amenable to staying in a hotel for free?

I would avoid American hotels first for corona risk and then for legionaires. Most will get it right, but a few large ones getting it wrong are worse than a lot of people sitting in rooms in single family houses without forced air systems.
I agree that kids might have a hard time deciding what they want to learn, but it sounds like this approach is less "learn whatever is interesting to you" and more "let's pick some topics together and go from there."

And I disagree that "cafeteria services" is ludicrous. Think of how many things go into planning and preparing meals in the cafeteria. There's the cooking, serving, staffing, ordering, combining, purchasing, and planning. Math goes into estimating how much of each thing to buy, food safety and biological processes can be taught in the context of how long food can be kept safely. Communication goes into creating the menu, and also in the ordering processes. A persuasive essay on cafeteria food selection could be part of the work.
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Dirt 5 releases October 2020 – First images and details released
You should check out the remote dev extension for vscode.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview
All the "good" they do, the nations states themselves could do as well. You don't get magic with things like this, you only get waste and the irresistable pursuit of its own existence, more money and more power.

There is no union in that sense. Most member states hate each other and use the EU to abuse the others.
This is truly awesome, and I back it completely.

Having said that, I can't help but imagine it as part of a Batman movie plot, though.
I don't think anyone's saying oppression is necessary, merely that bread and circuses have always been enough to placate the masses. Nobody revolts on a full stomach.
Linger does more than just keeping the session open after logout. It also means that the session gets started automatically on boot, which is necessary if you want to have systemd units for that user autostart. Case in point, the PulseAudio setup on my homeserver: https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/2f93ff...
Well whenever anything related to China is being discussed the "but they imprison dissidents/disappear people/etc" almost always comes up right away but since China (and for that sake Russia as well) are "bad" it is Ok to distract.

I do not like what China is doing to their people. But I also do not like our western self righteous hypocrisy. Do we really need to feel good about us doing bad things if somebody else is worse? By that logic let's take some African country and call China a saint.
Coronavirus blows a $54B hole in California’s budget. 3x Rainy Day Fund
I think herd immunity is an interesting point. Sweden is not there yet but its effective R value has already dropped below 1 a while back and it will continue to drop as the susceptible population continues to shrink.

Then there’s approaches like shielding that are interesting that are being discussed a lot. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0895-3

There’s something to note about this virus infection fatality rate: we don’t seem to have an agreed upon value for it and there is quite a window. It may depend on locale, population health, age, etc. But the 1% for the diamond princess is quite high and I think that number was cited for caution.
Nice. I miss my days at the greenfield Origo/TM in 96/97/98; I had the great pleasure of working with some incredibly clued in people who have done very well for themselves since. The Norwegian community was very much at the forefront; shutting down the Index project was a decision I'd truly like to see the other version of though.
They've just launched an app for that. Shop.app. An aggregator of all Shopify merchants searchable and proximity-aware. Haven't tried it yet though, if it's any good.
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Still going....
French living in Germany and married to a primary school teacher here.

Theoretically,differentiated learning is what teachers should use.
But as you observed, and like in many other countries such as France, reforms supposedly pedagogical are mostly decided based on economic interests.

On the field, teachers are understaffed and unable to apply the program.
That's good! A perfectly reasonable ambition. Now let's figure out how to make that happen. :)
School districts are sending WiFi-equipped buses to poor and rural neighborhoods
Are you avoiding Atkinson dithering?
Display always had been the Achilles’ heel on ThinkPad but anyone who use trackpad and speaker heavily on a ThinkPad is a peasant.
Dimitry (who is CTO at Nexenta) published a story on Reddit titled "EdgeFS - Geo-Transparent and Scale-Out Data Storage Layer just got open sourced!":https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/clzbnx/edgefs_g...

But then again, maybe the CTO is the rogue employee...

Edit: here is an archive in case it is taken down: http://archive.is/WZYl2

Edit2: here is a tweet from their official handle: https://twitter.com/EdgefsIo/status/1156309079968514048?s=20
Sorry, but can you explain why? Impugning someone’s character like this seems unfair if you can’t point to anything more concrete than a vague feeling. What makes you think this guy is an uncaring asshole?

Also, to be clear, this is a quarterly update on the entire business, not a lay-off announcement. I highly doubt that anything related to the layoffs was news to anyone in the company. That was likely covered in internal communications over the past few weeks.
Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic
I could probably understand why they did this,as hiring will be non existent for the upcoming months,but pages upon pages of BS about core values,culture, viruses,and whatever else comes along just left bad taste in my mouth.
I was hoping against hope he'd get a black respect bar here but alas, no.
I don't, but I've read enough to be aware of their approach which is to socially distance, protect the vulnerable but other than that, operate on a semi-normal basis. Kids go to school, adults go to work. Just wondering if they project Sweden to have any sort of "herd immunity" in the short/medium/long term timeframe.
Thought the reason the Finnish were so successful was that they had opted out of all the new modern ways of teaching in the past 50 years...
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WHO is no longer credible.
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> Some people think that in C, the integer literal 0xff is more "byte-like" than 255, when they are really exactly the same (both have type 'int'). Pet peeve.

You are technically correct.

However the meaning of the number for purposes of bitwise operation or other relationships to binary can often be more _immediately_ obvious when using hex. Certain regularities that are present in base 2 are also present in base 16 since the base is itself a power of 2.

The simplest example is the one you gave 255 = 0xFF = 0b11111111 where the intent is very often a mask. However things get less immediately obvious with larger numbers 0xFFFFFFFF = 4294967295, so it's essentially about clarity, and even for the case of 255 which is obvious to most, it still solidifies the intended meaning.

Obviously in this article it's pure geekery and there is no objective defense, but i love it anyway :P
The WHO should be dissolved without debate. They are either grossly incompetent or complicit.
I'm not big in to conspiracy theories, but this is my take on the WHO.
Their handling of the Corona virus has been a huge blunder.
Both are fine with GDPR as long as you disclose them somewhere. That can of course be a problem if you have insufficient technical knowledge.

Does WordPress come with a page disclosing this by default?

Of course, the server access log is not really their business, just the opt-in email. So I guess the webhoster needs to educate its customers if they store server logs?

This can all get kind of complicated if you don't know what you are doing.
Throwing away cached data may not be hard, but knowing (actually, ‘guessing’ often better describes it) what to throw away is.

“First in, first out” may seem fine at first sight, but if your access pattern is periodic, it may mean you just threw away the data you need, and kept around data you won’t need for 11, 10, 9, 8,… months. Also, why throw away data that’s needed, statistically, once a second, and keep the data that was read in for that one of a time query?

Also, quality of service might affect caching choices. If you need room on a factory floor, you don’t move the fire extinguisher to the back room, even though you know you likely will not use it.

Similarly, you might want to prefer caching data of web pages more likely to be visited, or even that of customers paying more.