skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of abuse of statistics, lumping the bottom 20-40% with the top 60-80% of wage earners is extremely deceptive. It's well known that income growth is wildly different for those groups. Inflation adjusted wages for the median worker only increased by 9% from 1973 to 2014.
The GSM standard was an international effort. But as far as I know, the first GSM radio was built here in Trondheim, Norway.

In fact, I know where this radio is right now, because I've seen it :-).

I was at the local university (NTNU) where the lab dungeon keeper occasionally will test and refurbish old surplus lab equipment and then sell it. I was there to pick up a few power supplies and we started talking. Eventually he brought us on a tour of the dungeons and I found the first GSM radio standing on a shelf in the basement storage.

http://borud.no/notes/gsm/
> Except for "full alphabet", all of that applies to the English alphabet as much as it does for the Greek alphabet.

Native English-speakers are very familiar with the "English alphabet" but that's irrelevant because we're comparing English words (or phrases) with Greek symbols.

> But both of you seem to disagree on what "literate", "very familiar" and "historically" really mean.

Perhaps, but I'm using standard meanings available from any English dictionary.

> Which is fine, language is not made to be precise - luckily we can use precise symbols where precise meaning matters, not English phrases. For example in math and physics.

You can assign precise meaning to words or phrases as easily as you can to Greek symbols. The two approaches differ in that it's easier for (at least English-speaking) humans to remember words or phrases that relate to or approximate the precise meaning than a random Greek letter (I'm sure someone will demand evidence, but this is hardly an extraordinary claim compared to its inverse) while letters (Greek or otherwise) are more expedient to write by hand.
That's sad. I used to go to NYC from Toronto for work once every month or two and I always flew Porter, and it was the best. The cookies and coffee was a nice touch. Comfortable lounge, etc. But that was 8, 9 years ago, and the last time I flew Porter was to Burlington, VT (before they cut that route) to go skiing, and they were in the process of renovating the lounge and changing things around. There was still free coffee but the shortbread cookies were nowhere to be seen; I could see things were changing.

That route was the best, BTW; I'd leave my house at 6:30am or so by taxi, get an early morning flight to Newark, take the train to Penn station, walk from there to the office and still arrive before many of my NY coworkers were at the office. Once we got bought by Google I found I could still make it to the Google NYC office in time for breakfast service. Memories :-)
I think you're misunderstanding. The Red Cross isn't the catering organisation of the Army. It's just a private organisation.
No in fact it is precisely the opposite. As GDP growth declines, there is more accumulated investment savings (supply glut of capital) chasing fewer high-returning investments. The savings has to go somewhere, and often it goes into high-yield debt (exactly the type private equity issues). Low growth translates into the increased use of credit.
In this video interview Edward Snowden says contract tracing is useless for this pandemic but good for surveillance.
Disagree and Commit is not about 100% buy-in. It is about having the fortitude to disagree, but once a decision is made, 100% committing to and supporting that decision, despite disagreeing.
Unlike Apple, where sales are infrequent and minor, the prices on Lenovo's site are much higher than you'll end up paying if you wait for a deal (even from Lenovo).

edit: My X1C gen7 with 1080p screen, 10th gen i7, 16GB ram and 256SSD was the equivalent of just under $1200 USD
Jane Jacobs is required reading as well.
Yes, these billionaires take collateralized loans, but that doesn't change the fact that they will eventually HAVE to pay taxes. At some point, Bezos has to realize some gain somewhere to have cash to pay back the loan — and odds are, that will be taxed as capital gains, the rate for which has been essentially constant since WW2.
I think the price is too high especially as you can still buy gen 7 which came out last summer fully loaded with 4K screen, 16GB ram 1TB ssd for about 2K. 32GB ram nor 2TB ssd are an option.

The highest end 13" with 2TB of SSD and 32GB of ram actually costs 3000

Reducing it to a TB SSD and 16 Ram leaves it at 2200 for the mac.
> Distributed atomic transactions are really hard

They are also best avoided. Design for failure.
>"Everything always comes out" (translated from Swedish)

"What's done in darkness will come to light" is an oft-used adage in English of Biblical origin. Many variations. I agree with it, too.
I appreciate the sentiment. I would gently suggest focusing the regret on the message rather than the recipient; it wouldn't have been better if written to a novice user.
wait. it was not fakenews?
Government is made up of people. "More" government isn't a meaningful term. The difference is who is in that government, how they are educated, what their values are, and how much trust they have in each other.
It's excellent for typing, you don't need to leave home row
What groups of people are moving in and out of Detroit? One explanation could be that people who previously could afford rents in Detroit can no longer do so, and the ones moving in are the ones who can afford these rents and mortgages. A lot of these low income neighborhoods in inner city Detroit have been raised and left to nature over the years, historic supply in the city center has been destroyed and what is left or is currently being constructed might be pricier housing comparatively. The working class greatly outnumbers the capital class everywhere. Take it with a grain of salt as I don't have any data in front of me, I'm merely postulating, but this would explain this trend.
I think there's some really invalid assumptions going on with the reasoning here. I don't have an exact answer, but I can challenge these assumptions.

You don't leave a "virus cloud path" behind you. It just follows the wind in random directions and quickly disperses within a few feet to concentrations that are safe (studies have shown that viral load of initial exposure is a significant factor in disease severity). Below a certain concentration, your immune system will just handle the few viral cells which landed on you.

I would challenge the 3ft vs 10ft thing as actually being a big stretch. I think further research is needed to say anything about that for sure, but keep in mind that beyond some certain distance, probably around 10 feet, distance stops mattering. In some sense, 100 ft is the same as 1000 ft. I would guess the threshold where distance stops mattering is somewhere between 6ft and 10ft, and realistically 10ft should be safe.
I don't think it's GDPR compliant, but I'll take it over some other obnoxious "solutions" out there.
After years of building too many separate microservices for something that should have been a monolith, I appreciate the wisdom of NOT spreading business logic around many different systems. If you find yourself refactoring a bunch of microservices because a small business rule changed, you probably don't have the services abstracted quite right.
If you like this, you may like "I spent my weekend hacking Zork" (2012): https://www.reddit.com/r/raldi/comments/10dtch/i_spent_my_we...
The touchpad, speakers and display are significantly better on the MacBook. Also, Apple sell their hardware products at a single, clearly advertized price point. I hate how Lenovo make you fuss around with discount codes to get a fair price.
The UK and the USA are both based on the UK establishment's greatest invention: first past the post. This forces two parties.

One party is "pro establishment". Then you only have one party who is supposedly "anti-establishment".

At this point you only have one party head to keep an eye on.

If the mood turns ugly (and it won't often because the establishment own all the press/media), you have to fix the head of the one "anti" party now and again.

UK: use the media to circulate a smear campaign against Corbyn after he nearly got in power and surprised them

USA: use the media to ignore/denigrate/belittle Sanders as some kind of insane communist.

Trudeau campaigned on removing FPTP and as soon as he got in someone, somewhere told him to drop it like a hot potato. Legalizing weed was fine, even though this was apparently hotly contested before, because it's not a real issue and is there to be sacrificed when real power issues come up.
Preach. Not only is Gecko a nightmare to embed, Firefox is terrible for headless. It's why something like phantomjs even had to exist.

An embeddable Gecko would've created a wonderful ecosystem around it, produced headless browsers, a much wider range of browser alternatives, and had much more leverage when it comes to standard. They had... 8 years? 5 years? on Chomium and now have one hell of a task to correct that error.

Looking at the code of their new layout engine written in Rust, making it embeddable wasn't even remotely on their minds either. A real pity.
Scientific evidence, logic behind claim that the Wuhan coronavirus is man-made
Pretty modern tech stack for a ten-year old company. Did they do many rewrites?
Cupertino’s giant Vallco project near Apple Park approved for construction
> ABI (the itanium ABI) is fixed,

That's irrelevant. The only aspect that is relevant is that the C++ standard does not define nor assume a standard or even fixed ABI, thus each compiler vendor just goes with the flow.

In some rare cases where a compiler vendor also controls the platform and essentially holds a vertically integrated monopoly, they are in a better position to not break the ABI all that often. Everyone else doing stuff in C++, whether writing programs or libraries or compilers or putting together OS distributions, just faces the music.
I've done a similar thing when I was writing a language (with generics) that compiled to Go and needed to implement name mangling. But in any case, this isn't an example of a non-native speaker using utf-8 to write in his native language. :)
> direct descendent

never heard anything like this - care to elaborate / point?
This type of mentality is exactly what led to "urban renewal" in the 1960s and the complete destruction of American inner cities to be replaced with 18-lane freeways and grimy concrete housing projects that concentrated poverty and sent crime rates skyrocketing.

Because planners' hubris, similar to the insane technocratic Silicon Valley hubris these days, led to them making terrible decisions with zero community input and a team of yes-men around them.

> I might not oppose a dictator coming in for two years and just having at it.

Ironic a culture that fetishizes free markets and an open marketplace of ideas favors totalitarianism because they find the idea of being part of a larger human community with all its flaws icky. Step away from the keyboard some more and maybe, I dunno, go outside and talk to people? Problems like these are never solved with Docker.
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr70/en/ This is a horrifying possibility. No evidence of it being an issue in NY - but dense old brick buildings...
Datadog already has an Apollo integration. It's not as good as Apollo Engine but when it's 80% of the product for 1% of the price then it's a no-brainer. We already paid Datadog anyway.
I've had a similar experience traveling about the San Francisco bay area. In certain parts of the peninsula folks seem to be respecting the shelter in place and doing the whole PPE thing. Down in the South Bay there's about three different neighborhoods I passed through that definitely have a lot more action going on with people out and about, walking, biking, kids playing, groups of teens wandering around.

It's palpable the difference in behavior across demographics. I can even experience ramped up activity just going through the freeway through certain cities, some are dead, others are pretty active. Would be a great lil documentary with a dash cam sampling different neighborhoods. Population density is a function of the differences as well I'd imagine.
I've already got http://rt.live/, which is a lot better because it breaks the stats down by state. Lumping everything together into a single number for the entire US isn't useful at all for reasoning about when things will open, or what measures are working. I'm relying on this information to make investment decisions!
Surely New York could bankroll this.
Social media faster than official sources to identify software flaws – GCN
GitHub Docs call for community feedback
I work at GitHub and I’m working on our documentation. I’m looking to learn more about how we can make them better for developers. If you’ve used GitHub and are familiar with the docs, I’d love to chat.
It really depends on your needs. For modern development of projects with bloated file structures, having a hand-holding GUI like VSC that tames the file structure of the project really is nice.

If you're just occassionally dropping into headless filesystems to do some text editing, you're not going to invest in learning a new paradigm and you will likely use whatever default editor is presented to you. That is typically vim. For those who mindfully choose to set out and learn a new paradigm because they've decided to invest in a long-term time-saving skill, I doubt the vim/emacs divide is quite as stark as the numbers mentioned in the article.
Thanks for the recommendation.

> Infected microchips from Chinese suppliers used to target and destroy the US Pacific fleet.

Awesome, the ideas that are often posted here have somehow made their way into fiction.

> Disabling GPS with anti-satellite missiles.

Just GPS? I'd expect surveillance and communications satellites to be much higher priority targets.
I was under the impression that there are serious non-conspiracy concerns about the impact of 5G networking on weather satellits [0]. Something along the lines of "they use a frequency in the range used by 5G in order to see water vapor".

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...
‘This is certainly different’: Astronauts on controlling Dragon via touchscreen
I need that on a t-shirt.
Pointless, besides being $7T in the hole.
SF confirms it's giving drugs to homeless in hotels in 'limited quantities'
Generally you don't have to prove your case, you need to provide enough evidence to meet the prima facie threshold. In some cases, a declaration and blurry copy of an invoice will do depending on the state and the stakes.

Still in consumer debt collection, even if they can prove the debt, predatory/volume collection firms tend to fold if an answer is filed. Not always of course, since as you know many factors may come into play.
How is this better than an electric motor turning a fan?

Modern high-bypass jet engines get the vast majority of their thrust from turning a fan. The turbine part is (mostly) just used to generate torque to drive the fan.

Modern electric motors also have ridiculously high efficiencies (> 97% isn't uncommon).

So how would using electricity to heat the air be better than using the same electricity to turn a fan? The only place I can think of is high supersonic where fan efficiency starts to drop.
Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio: Self-supervised learning is key to human-level AI
10% would have been high over that timeframe but imagine what shape that business was in.
He also went all in on a video game Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring in it and writing the sound track. It was kind of cool as I remember but I never finished it. Just another part of that era of Bowie.
Wow, I would have thought that a p-trap filled with water would have blocked gases from the drain waste vent system. What's going on here, do the vents not vent all the way to the top of the building but come out the sides of the buildings? Guess they'd have to at some point as the number of stories goes on and on.
Less of everything on a relative basis, but more of everything on an absolute basis.

It's a game of moving goal posts.
Covid lockdown ends with protesters firebombing banks in Lebanon
Oh, I found the state-by-state breakdown via https://covid19-r0.com/?country=US?

Can anyone explain why the Rt values differ so much from those given by rt.live?
It's easy if not every commit needs to compile. :)
You don't need to use MVVM for WPF - it's a design pattern, not a framework requirement. If you prefer the typical WinForms approach of just handling events directly and manually managing the data flow and actions in those handlers, it can totally do that.
Generate 8-bit avatars using Cellular Automata
anybody want to buy some Lumens?
Usable for technical people,but as they note at the end of the blog post, they have ways to go with respect to first time user experience.

I tried getting a team of tech savvy people to use it for backup encrypted comms, the UX was horrid, the key verification just didn't work at the time. Hopefully this is fixed.

I am hoping a commercial product comes out of this,so they have proper QA and UAT. The FOSS approach of filing an issue/bug when basic things fail does not translate well to a generic audience. The protocol and Riot are actually decent,but I think the UX has yet to catch up with the rich feature set.

Both Signal and Slack just worked. Slack has great UX, Signal is mediocre but from a security perspective, many things are non-obvious which to me feels like a dark pattern of insecurity,Riot maybe more painful but fails in more obvious ways.
Don't forget the third step, collecting on the judgment. This is often the hardest part.
FPTP clearly does not force two parties, given as there are three substantial parties in the UK parliament, and seven more minor parties with seats!
In this instance it leaked at the seams.

[Edit] It was a mix / not sure -https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/04/18/i...
I think the main problem with time management is prioritization. People are confused by what is important to them. We are told to live true to yourselves but everyone has 2 selves: the current self and future self and these 2 selves often have conflict of interest.

Another problem with finding time to do something is the context. We have 8-9 hours at work but many of us only work for 5 or 6 hours. However, we cannot do personal things (like reading or working on your project) for the rest of the day. We will be judged by the people around us.
It all comes down to job growth driving demand on housing supply. The better the local economy, the more hiring is going on, the more people are recruited and look for housing convenient to work. Hardly anyone uproots themselves and moves to a new city without having a job lined up first. The value of the underlying land is speculative based on demand induced by job growth.
The CEO is rarely the owner of a company big enough to require unionization. When they are, their primary remuneration is rarely in wages.
Zeromac: On-Demand Virtual Private Mac
SARS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/04/18/i...

COVID19

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3051209/...
> If you see everyone as atomic agents of work, is Bezos worth so much because of cherry picked models favored by law, or is he himself distributing goods in a universally mathematically efficient way by some unknown force, invisible hands and “free markets (in a nation of laws?)”?

> If he’s literally doing it, wow! Ok. But if it’s mathematical efficiency it’s mathematical efficiency. Bezos didn’t measure it. He took object distribution and abstracted it. Wow! Business innovation!

I guess optimization of global supply chains in a way that enables anyone to practically materialize literally anything they want within 2 days might not count to you as a real “innovation”, so I’ll take a different angle.

Half of Amazon’s revenue comes from Amazon Web Services. Starting a business today is easier than it has ever been, thanks in large part to AWS. I work at a small seed-stage tech startup, and our product runs on infrastructure that, until recently, was only available to giant blue chip corporations with the resources to employ 100s of engineers to maintain datacenters, databases, tooling, monitoring & alerting, load balancing, etc. All of that is now available to our tiny little team for a simple monthly subscription fee. You can attribute the value of most startups today to the availability of this infrastructure as a service.

> That carbon emissions have detrimental effects on human health and the environment was pretty obvious in London and elsewhere back in the day

Not sure how this is relevant to income tax rates, gig workers, or labor unions — but we probably agree that carbon emissions are bad. IMO we should tax emissions as much as possible.
>Unfortunately, if Person #2 chooses to get sick sooner, it increases the probability that Person #1 will get sick

How does person #1 catch something if they are self isolating and don't interact with person #2?

You mentioned the probability of this, an increased risk for person #1 even if they are self isolating. I can grant that there is some risk associated with this But how does that compare to the impact that these lockdowns are having on tens of millions of people.

What if there won't be a vaccine soon enough, and herd immunity amongst the young is our best defense, and lockdowns just prolonged the economic misery and didn't save lives in the end? Still a possible outcome at this point.
I tend to make all my stuff open-source and free. I have no intentions of ever charging for it.

I do this for a couple of reasons:

1) "Brand-building." I'm developing a "personal brand," and I do it for a similar reason as companies give away free T-shirts with their logo.

2) Lead by Example. I have a beef with the quality of most software, these days. I have decided not to whine about it.

Instead, I just write my own software the way that I think it should be written, and leave it out there. Since quality isn't really a coefficient in most developers' minds, these days, it doesn't get much attention; which is fine by me.

So...sort of "virtue signaling," but in an even more passive-aggressive way.

I also have a personal policy of making all my work public, because I am used to it, and I think that it helps me to write better software. You always vacuum before the in-laws visit.

I would never charge for my open source (MIT-Licensed) work, but I also put the source up there for the stuff I do charge for (a tiny pittance). It isn't licensed for reuse, but it's out there.

If someone hires me to write proprietary software, then I won't put it out there (unless that's what the customer wants). I did a great deal of "behind the firewall" work that is likely to never see the light of day (indeed, much of it was in products that were never even officially released).

Otherwise, I'm likely to keep putting my work out there for free; whether or not anyone else cares.

I care.
> The medical system in the US was never overwhelmed

So you think the solution was pointless because it prevented the problem from ever occurring?
I keep postponing cochlear implantation (using hearing aids, though) hoping just for something like this, to supply processed audio signal directly to the brain. Hope it will have enough bandwidth.