skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe new thinkpads are exceptionally bad, because I've used thinkpads daily for decades now and have never had this problem. X40, X61, numerous X61S's, X201S, X220, X230, X250, and mix of T-series machines back in the day, not once has this been an issue for me. And I abuse these machines to the point that I replace the worn-polished and sloppy keyboards, and often crack the chassis, they don't live an easy life under my hands.

The only remotely related phenomenon I've seen is after resting on the trackpoint steadily long enough, it learns that to be the new center as it's constantly adapting. So upon finally removing my resting finger, it will drift just long enough for the adaptive centering to update and the drift stops. But that's perfectly normal and very short-lived.
> Where a surgical mask is 95% effective at preventing transmission; This is reasonable use.

I think we're still waiting on data on how much virus gets in the air from normal breathing, but it seems plausible that it's not insignificant and may be reduced drastically by you wearing a mask. If you're leaving a cloud of virus in your path, putting on a mask for only the few seconds you're passing someone isn't going to do anything about the cloud of virus you could possibly be leaving in your wake.

> If they're not within 6' of another person; there is nothing inherently bad about being outside.

6ft is a bit of an arbitrary number that's easy to remember, but people are treating it like it's some magic shield. Time spent in proximity presumably plays a factor as well. Walking quickly past someone at 3ft away is probably a lot safer than standing 10ft away from someone and talking for ten minutes. Being outside certainly should help, but in a place with a high concentration of people with the virus I would not consider it a safe activity.
I don't really buy that characterizing the current method as a 'fictitious stimulus' and inferior to "tax and redistribute."

As far as redistribution goes, the current method is functionally equivalent to a flat tax with progressive redistribution.
Sure, but the Google/Apple contact tracing APIs do not need this.
> there's just some people who never burn out

I once read there is only concrete that has either already cracked or is about to crack.
This is fine until you need atomic transactions that cross the boundary of two "self-contained" systems. Now you have a big problem. Distributed atomic transactions are really hard.

Some databases actually do that kind of thing, after years of painful development and major theory work. But the trend towards using databases as mere object stores, and having each component of a microservice architecture use its own database, means you can't let the database do the heavy lifting on interlocking.

End result: "What happened to my order?", and "Why did I get two of these?"
Using Python to generate over 10k unique 8-bit lightsabers
> taxes are probably subsidizing a portion of the cost

If you forced a business to provide a certain service at $150 vs. not provide it at all, you will be surprised how innovative that business could become in providing the service at $150

A lot of doctors, right here in California see patients for $50 cash - no subsidies, no pro bono, no nothing, so $150 for an office visit does not sound unreasonable.

Maybe the lounge music, the sodas, the Himalayan salt lamps, heated seats will have to go.
See Rust's correctness guarantees are going to help you avoid a full-on Robinhood situation ;) jkjk
I think maybe you're over-emphasizing the problem with this terminology. When I first started learning Emacs it took me all of 5 minutes to get used to the new terms, it isn't that hard. Maybe there's an argument for the lack of value of using older terminology, but again, I think this problem is overblown.
Bidirectional note linking, and an offer for Roam importers
I've got my own biases [1], but Kings Island has always been a bigger/better park than Holiday World, but yes that free soft drink package makes a lot of sense on why it would be more appealing to all sorts of families regardless of whether the park is better or not overall.

[1] I worked food service at Kings Island for a summer and a half way back in High School.
Wow, I love this idea. I'm curious how you have that structured within the code base. Is it literally a platform folder and a business folder?
> Maybe it should be funded with tax-dollars then.

this presumes in some sense that they are not already.
You don’t need to avoid reboot if you have enough machines
IIRC, "The way of the Exploding Fist" (usually referred to as "Fist") and it's sequel "Fist II" were written on a pair of C64s that were connected by a cable. They wrote the code on one machine, but ran it on the other so that crushes would not take down the editor/compiler.

I don't know if that scheme was widely used elsewhere, but unlike larger systems, this was basically within reach for any programmer doing work that was going to go on sale.
The problem here is that the unit and the thing being measured don't agree in that sentence. As a reader, I have to guess if the author really meant:

> Its 6m panels produce 1.5 gigawatt[-hour]s (GW[h]) of energy [per year]

or

> Its 6m panels produce 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of [power]

With some reasoning, I can land on the 2nd one just fine, but a little doubt lingers, because I've seen similar errors where I had to do the first substitution to make the numbers work.
I do this all the time. My machine has a modern browser, up to date OCSP, HSTS already cached, all that. Could you please explain to me the danger or threats you are warning against?
TANSTAAFD

Remember when ATMs were free?
I think that the artist would pay taxes on the royalties as they come in, but would not have to pay taxes on the lump sum when they issue the bond.
Next year when the last nuclear reactor goes down in Germany we'd have something around 15.000 tons. Since we're not the US of A with a hell lot of space and the fact that we've been looking for a spot for years now, it's not a trivial problem at all.

But maybe you can convince your government to take our waste and fix this "trivial" problem? I'm sure we'd be able to pay for it a nice sum and your current president looks like he might be stupid enough to actually do it.
Now that we're in the habit of quoting Wikipedia... "DigitalOcean provides developers cloud services that help to deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers."
> It's closer to listen/accept/fork.

No, it isn't, it's doing the same thing as a select(2) server would do, except it's using epoll to avoid scaling issues when you have a lot of file descriptors in the polling set. The only difference is that the workers are doing something that requires CPU, not I/O, so OS threads are being used for them (a single threaded server would be fine if the workers were just doing more I/O, like sending a request to a remote database and waiting for a response). But the worker threads are not doing any I/O management at all; they read from or write to an fd only when the central server that is calling epoll tells them to. In the listen/accept/fork model, the central server forgets about an fd once it has passed it to a handler process, and the handler process using blocking I/O.
Half of those companies are monopolies or close enough. But they also already provide very generous compensation, so what would you expect a union to negotiate for?

You would also run the risk in that case not that they outsource to Bangladesh but that they outsource to Europe, if the union started demanding things they didn't want to give. Or just let the union walk out and hire different workers.

That's the other reason unions don't really work outside of monopolies. If the company needs 100,000 workers and only 200,000 workers with that skillset exist in the world and the other 100,000 work for a competitor, you need the workers you already have. If the company needs 10,000 workers and a million workers with that skillset exist in the world, they can let you walk and hire other people. And in this case it's a real monopoly, not the soft stuff like Google and Facebook have -- Google doesn't have a lot of competition for search, but a random engineer from Facebook or Apple or Microsoft could still do most of the work they need to do, and vice versa.
memory.c: In function ‘mk_entry’:
memory.c:116:12: internal compiler error: in saved_diagnostic, at analyzer/diagnostic-manager.cc:84
116 | return (struct entry) {safe_calloc(end - start, 1), start, end};
| ^
Please submit a full bug report,

Goes to look at README.Bugs. Holy cow, I don't have time to to check all those places to see if it has been reported already.
i'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on my Thinkpad P2 Gen 2 laptop, using the Budgie Desktop. I'd guess my entire workflow is 95% the same coming from my MBP.
The financial structure of a LBO is that a PE fund uses the assets of an acquired company to pay for the acqusition. They generally put little if any of their own money down other than as earnest capital. They then take out additional loans using the acquired company assets as collateral and pay themselves distributions out of those loans. The acquired company is left to repay the massive and increasing debts.

You don't hear about the successful LBOs...because they're extremely rare. The only LBOs that worked out for the acquired companies are for those like Hilton, which occurred right before interest rates dropped, allowing the acquired companies to refinance their debts at lower rates than incurred by the LBO. The recession that occurred right after that LBO also let them fire tens of thousands of workers and shutter hundreds of locations and blame the recession rather than the shitty PE management and pillaging.

Toys R' Us and Neiman Marcus are the prototypical LBOs. Whether or not the LBO succeeds, PE gets rich, everyone else gets screwed.
> Once they got big enough, of course it made sense for them to optimize their infrastructure

Isn't that true in all cases?

There is no doubt that rolling and maintaining your own infrastructure can be and is better than dumping cash on the AWSs of this world. The only question is what size marks the breakeven point.
That's true, in theory, but in practice Medicare fee schedules aren't that much better than private insurers.

Additionally, providers themselves are starting to charge out-of-network rates that are LOWER than Medicare fee schedules. For example, Wal-Mart has launched healthcare in Georgia, charging $25 for a cleaning[1], which is significantly lower than the amount for a cleaning (procedure code D1110) set by Medicare/Medicaid. You can look it up yourself by visiting the FAIR Health code lookup tool (https://www.fairhealthconsumer.org/dental/results), and setting the ZIP code to that of Carlton, GA (location of the Wal-Mart clinic), 30627. The average allowed amount is $64.

Finally, the US government has historically been pretty bad at setting prices, as a monopsony buyer. The US military spends more per capita on the military largely because it pays more per-soldier, per-fighter jet, etc than any other nation on the planet. You would think that, as the sole buyer of US defense sector fighter jets, it could negotiate better rates. The F-35 is expected to cost $1.5 trillion (!!) over its lifetime, and the US enjooys monopoly/legislative powers over that cost.

Another example: NASA's planned SLS moon mission is a bit of a disaster — way over budget and way behind schedule. Because the boosters aren't reusable, each launch is expected to cost $1B (with a B) dollars — EACH launch! Meanwhile SpaceX's target cost-per-launch is $50M.

So while you're right that, in theory, a monopsony can extract the lowest possible price, there's absolutely no guarantee of this, indeed American empirical evidence has at times proven otherwise.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-25/walmart-t...
Computer model that locked down the world turns out to be sh*tcode
Edward Snowden: Contact Tracing is "The Architecture of Oppression"
I think it’s a higher amount then we think. Everyone needs to wear a mask.
Would that be really so surprising?
Phone numbers are the most identifying piece of information. They are precise identifiers not pseudo-anonymous. A non-burner phone can easily be converted to a complete background check on the person for under $50 ,for a higher price it can be converted to current realtime physical address.
Honest question - why not? My bank uses this cool thing called TLS. What’s the threat model here?
The built in ZX Spectrum basic did not, though; What did you use? I remember using Picturesque assembler after giving up on hand-assembling instructions (though, I still remember a few random Z80 codes....)
Signal's servers store no contact lists at all. It's not that phone numbers are some especially good anonymizing identifier; obviously, they are if anything the opposite. It's that everyone who uses Signal already has a local contact list keyed on phone numbers, which Signal's client applications can access, which means the server doesn't have to know about contact lists in the first place.
I agree that the govt seems to suck at negotiating. What do you think we should do now?

> health rationing

What are you talking about?
Huh? If you aren't assuming that then how does this fall out:

"Then it could also mean that there hasn't been any working combination of capital and labor that didn't depend on labor being exploited."

Is it not your assumption because of the so-called weasel words "could mean"??
Which JDK? OpenJDK 14 on my machine:

~> Measure-Command { java Main }
Milliseconds : 59
The problem is health care is nothing close to a free market.

In many parts of the country, it is illegal to open up a new hospital without a government license. Existing hospitals often lobby to prevent competing hospitals from opening up.
The theory is that PE exists to run existing companies better than their current owners.

The financial and legal reality is that PE simply loads the target company with the debt used to acquire the company (i.e., PE doesn't actually put up any of its own money), and then pays itself by taking out more debt secured by the acquired company. And then they charge the acquired company a management fee for the privilege of having all of its useful assets being used as collateral for loans the PE company never intends to repay.
I ordered take-out from Longhorn Steakhouse last week, they threw in a feee dessert... I did the same thing yesterday, But this time no free dessert. I am pissed!
Yeah I completely agree. It's like, I agree with GNU and the FSF, but that doesn't mean I'm as strict as they are. I want to contribute to MIT, Apache, and BSD licensed projects as well, or I want to just not think about it and work on some project that has no licensing info whatsoever.

But (some definitely not all) folks are pretty all or nothing. There's a lot of jerk developers on the net though, maybe it's better to just ignore them?
Sure, I'm not defending the US status quo, just attacking the idea that "single-payer" is the best/only solution. Not arguing for an anarchist free-for-all either — some of the most successful private healthcare regimes (Switzerland, Singapore) are also well regulated.
Even impossible deadlines aren't the end of the world. "We need X Y and Z done in N weeks!" "...I'm not sure if we can get even one of those completed in N weeks - and that's even before accounting for the fact that I'm an optimist among optimists. Since it's so obviously impossible, I'm not going to kill myself trying - instead, let's talk prioritization, so we can deliver as much value as reasonably possible within the deadline, if it's really an important one."

What you want to avoid:

1) Pressuring devs into crunch/burnout/quitting/morale loss/checking out. Turnover will eventually cause brain drain when your best talent leaves for greener pastures, and makes hiring more expensive when your reputation sours.

2) Pressuring devs into sacrificing long term productivity for meaningless short term milestones. It's one thing to prioritize a feature or two for an important presentation to investors who will be making decisions about your financial future at the temporary expense of, say, test coverage. It's another to do so routinely that codebase stability suffers, developer velocity gets wasted on disturbingly routine debugging sessions, and build engineers disable code coverage metrics for being "just too gosh darn depressing to even look at."
> That causal chain only works in perfect competition where prices are convergent with marginal cost. In real market conditions perfect competition doesn't exist just as perfect monopolies are rare.

Only "close enough" is required, not perfection. Sure, a union could negotiate a 1% raise without destroying most companies, but then they'd eat that amount in union dues and time value of doing paperwork etc. Meanwhile if they demand a 30% raise, that's more than the companies in a lot of industries could absorb.

> Google and Apple are competing on selling phones, Google and Facebook are competing on selling ads, yet all sit on billions of dollars of cash. I don't see their workers being able to "extract" more from their companies?

Are you not familiar with the level of compensation paid by these employers?

They are also hardly exemplars of competitive markets. Think restaurants or farmers.
Didn't know we used to have a computer industry here. Shame it's all gone now :/
As a vim user, I use Spacemacs for Lisp. Otherwise, I don't like mode inconsistencies (e.g. vim keys don't work inside SLIME debugger), the lack of tabs and the startup/running footprint. It doesn't feel right or convenient to have many Emacs instances scattered throughout tmux or terminal windows, created and killed as needed. Now that I'm thinking about it, this and tabs help me map my work space mentally in a way that hidden buffers (or directory trees) don't.
Do they have open vent pipes or something?
How covid-19 conspiracy theorists are exploiting YouTube culture
I like how I can control the rate at which I scroll with the mouse more easily than with the keyboard. It's a more intuitive movement that I can adjust to match the speed of my reading.
Ok, I don't see that at all.
I agree and feel that especially when all is said and done across the country there will be a lot of changing opinions on what was actually a good response and who should have done better given what they should have known.

I'm hoping that it will be possible to put individual hospital systems under scrutiny for their handling of the virus so that things there can improve as well.
They're ridiculously light too. I have the 7th with the 6-core i7-10710U and it weighs under 1000g (not including power adapter).
Interesting to see from the docs that it seems to have been built by VMWare Pivotal, rather than an internal NHS(X) team.
> why do you need to [get rid of renormalization]?

What does renormalization actually represent? Why does nature do that? Those rules seem kinda tacked-on after the fact, to me...

> There's nothing about the fundamentals of QFT that says it can only apply to point particles

String Theory does not present a serious challenge to QFT or the Standard Model yet, but it is a massive set of additional ideas that are completely unnecessary for either one, and it is a paradigm in vigorous conflict with all of the other proposed completions to the Standard Model right now. If any of these completions ever wins conclusively, it will also "win" against the Standard Model, in the sense that the Standard Model will turn out to be a higher-level approximation of some truer lower-level theory, one which will never explain any of its fine-tuning, and therefore one which will fail.

It's very similar to GR vs. Newtonian Dynamics, and I would argue that Newtonian Dynamics is in fact a failed paradigm, and it has been replaced by a better paradigm, no matter how useful it may remain.
> actually get quoted a price for that service. I might choose to go across town if it saved me $40K

I have been working as a software consultant for decades now and always have a menu price ready.

Even with this menu pricing, my customers still need my help in figuring out what they need from the menu.

If my customers already knew what they needed to solve their problems, I have 0 value to add as a consultant - at that point, they just need to either hire staff/developers to execute on their requirements.

If I broke my hip today, how exactly would a menu of hip related items help me compare costs?

How would I even begin to know which items from the menu apply to my situation without having some idea what is involved in fixing a broken hip?

Do I need a MRI? XRay? Both? Which sections of the hip? We even have not started on diagnosis.

Price transparency is only useful when one knows exactly what is needed.

You pretty much have to be a doctor to shop prices unless you're doing an elective surgery where time is on your side and you can do some research as you wait and shop.

I'm not sure anyone's doing price comparison when their wife's on the delivery table and has just had some complications.
Hello! I authored this post, and would love to get some community feedback.

I've really enjoyed using both Terraform and Terragrunt, and think you and your company would as well.

Please let me know if there are any questions I can answer
I mean, no disagreements there, I'm just attacking the inaccurate and often used WW2 era vs Reagan era income tax argument.

Even back then, none of the super rich were paying that income tax rate, because the wealthiest people in the world owe their wealth to ownership in their corporations.
I know I don't have to, but I don't know how to get to these organic channels. Tried Instagram audience building, but got bored with it, zero sales. I also can't hire a marketer since they will probably just want to spend $ on ads and the circle closes.

It's not SAAS, but e-commerce.
Alright, here's another example. Let's say I'm living in Nazi Germany, and the top population geneticists are unanimous in their opinion that Jews are an inferior and evil race, seeking to undermine the volk. I'm pretty sure they're wrong, Jews seem just as human as myself. Am I justified in dissenting from the authority of experts, even though I myself have not put in the 10-15 years of researching population genetics to become an expert? I would say so. What gives me this right to dissent from the authority of consensus of experts?
Why do they not use the ESR version?
Of course these are anecdotal. I got my IdeaPad U430 in 2014. Same year it slid off my bunk bed (6' high), first hitting the corner of my dresser before it fell on the hardwood floor. It cracked its spine in half and got a dent in the back of the screen so deep that part of the screen is bulging out. I was sure I would be buying a new laptop. To my delight, there was no functional damage to it, it's still my daily laptop today. My next one will be a ThinkPad when one of the components fail.
Great article.

This seems like a pretty ringing endorsement - the app seems likely to work despite iOS restrictions, gets a more or less clean bill of health privacy wise, and was released earlier than Apple's own product.

It's surprising to see the app get so much negative press, but I've not seeing anything credible contradicting the articles claims.
I've used uwsgi a few times before. It is a pain to set up every time, but once it's configured, it works fine for the small, basic apps that I make.
If you are referring to 2016, the national results were pretty accurate. Clinton did win the popular vote. The Electoral College gives slightly more power to small states than they would get under a popular vote, and occasionally that extra power makes a difference.
The article specifically mentions later on that California has stricter proof requirements in order for debt collectors to get default judgments. Unfortunately, most other states apparently don't do this.
But is that good for accessibility?