skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s about time to change the game
Have you hit a wall in performance yet?
No, herd immunity means "enough people are resistant so the vulnerable ones don't get infection spread to them at all". There's a big difference there.
Not exactly. It says either technology can be equally invalidated by the user with the same level of effort, which makes the “disabled JavaScript” rebuttal particularly weak. In practice, though, what percentage of users disable JavaScript where cookies are used?
> Yes, I know Emacs has a text-based UI for configuration, too. I've used it. It's bad. Okay? It's just bad. The controls are non-standard and weird, the organization is utterly mystifying to someone who doesn't already understand Emacsology, just... no. Start over.

I’ve used GNU Emacs for twenty years and totally agree. I avoid the customization menus wherever I can.
The entire title of the article so you aren't confused:

In a potential big win for renewable energy, Form Energy gets its first grid-scale battery installation
> I just got laid off myself

Been there. It’s a good opportunity to think about what you want to do. If you’re interested in a tech job contact me privately.
I can see how an evidence-based person would conclude that China's government is working well

Indeed, in the 50’s and 60’s it seemed plausible that the economies of North Korea, Cuba, Russia, the DDR were all going to surpass their Western counterparts before long. The wheels started to come off in the 70’s and by the 90’s it was all over for them.
Yep and actual stats in this report unlike OPs article.
I think I'm missing something here, which chinese laboratory would be guilty of what? Are you talking the claim the virus has been engineered in a lab? If so I think there is a consensus of scientits that reckon it is not the case.
Samsung has a pretty good track record of pushing security updates, even to old phones.

They are also pretty open about CVEs and security patches: https://security.samsungmobile.com/
I completely agree with you and even "crazier" I don't hang out with Alex Jones type of people, though the vast majority of I've recently talked to about it also agree with us.

I don't get why you're being downvoted, I had to create a throwaway for obvious reasons; I usually find myself not ready to "out" any of my opinions.
I haven't lived in the USA for almost 10 years, intentionally don't follow or consume USA media and I am far from a fan of Donald Trump. Try again CCP troll.
I'm not sure how I feel about this... I think I would still rather go with MFC and the good ol' battle tested Win32 APIs
See the words "case study" - "complex" - "Table" ... Start to read the blog post and realize this is just a bunch of front-end stuff about fonts and animations. >.> Misleading! >.>
Useless is a strong word.

Its basically back to pre Prime days where stuff would take a week to show up.
Can one of the many commenters decrying this as "bullshit business-speak" explain to me what is so terrible about this? I'm genuinely asking.

My theory is that this is a good example of why HN discourages editorializing in titles. The current title here ("Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%") sets you up to think that this is a layoff announcement by SO. But from reading the first paragraph, I think this is just an externally-facing quarterly update on the business overall. I suspect that nothing about the layoffs here was news to anyone in the company, and they had plenty of internal communications around it already. And even here, the language about layoffs seems fine to me:

This has been a tough week at Stack Overflow, and taking care of each other is more important than ever right now. Like companies large and small, we have had to make difficult choices in order to reflect the market conditions. This week, we reduced our global workforce by approximately 15%. Most of the affected employees were furloughed, except for employees and contractors in regions where furloughs were unfortunately not an option. These actions primarily affected sales and customer success teams within our Talent business, which is dependent on the hiring environment.

We made these decisions with great care and only after assessing and leveraging all other options. We’ve paused all non-critical hiring, suspended our travel budget for all of Q2 and Q3, and cut marketing and software costs significantly.

Reducing our headcount was a painful but necessary decision, of no fault of the employees affected, and one that I take full accountability for as the CEO. We did this in order to ensure that we can serve our customers and community in the long-run.

What is the problem with that, specifically?

The rest of the post reads like a perfectly normal update, written in a slightly formal tone, which seems appropriate to me. If you're running a business with hundreds of employees, tens of thousands of customers, tens of millions of readers, and other stakeholders like partners, vendors, and investors, you probably are going to be a little more formal with your tone. It takes uncommon skill to write the kind of updates that Buffet or Bezos manage to pull off. Just because this is anodyne doesn't make it "bullshit" or this guy "incompetent" or "an asshole".

Can someone point out anything specific that they found so off-putting about this quarterly update on the business?
It's not clear how the WHO is actually helping with the pandemic.
Do they treat patients, develop vaccines, tests, antibody tests, or treatment protocols? What do they do exactly? Seems like they talk and have press conferences where they say with confidence to the world, as China is locking up a city, that the virus doesn't transmit between humans.
It's funny you consider WHO a serious organization.
UN does not recognize Taiwan and WHO is part of it.
I ported a SNES/SFC Emulator [1] to TempleOS earlier this year, and more recently started porting the old Apogee game Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure [2]

[1] https://gitlab.com/obecebo/bahamut

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPdUoEA8E54
(Until next round.)

It is hard to imagine a company like SE being more relevant once people can meet again.
Appreciate it, it's pretty interesting to see the CCP propaganda machine come out in full force here.
I really enjoy Fabien's articles - really great fascinating stuff.

I have to wonder about the choice of custom PHP to generate the pages, especially if you are going to start from scratch when the intention is drastic simplicity?

I can understand the rationale of picking PHP many years ago to hand-roll something, but these days there are a lot of excellent static site generators which might be a better choice? E.g. Jekyll is very simple and flexible in my experience, and you can hand-roll some HTML + CSS and get something looking and behaving (e.g. URL structure) how you like very easily. I have had less success with Hugo (in terms of URL structure etc), but I know a lot of people prefer it to Jekyll for its golang-based compile performance.

Am I missing something for the rationale for PHP here?

It would seem that most of the rules here are editorial/design decisions rather than technical restrictions really. I guess perhaps there is the legacy issue of loads of old articles that are written in PHP that would need to be migrated, but that sounds like something that can be trivially automated and would only need to be done once.
>> Had they not heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”?

I remember watching an interview with a Finnish teacher where they were asked this very question. Their answer was something like "Being best in the world doesn't mean we can't be better"

When you realise that Finland has little in the way of natural resources and it's economy is very much tied to the skills of the population it makes a lot of sense to be this focused on education.
The crux of the argument is showing different strains requires showing different phenotypes, and that that hasn't been supported with enough evidence. D614S is taken as an example, which purportedly increases transmissibility (thus would be a different strain), but most-likely doesn't. Apparently the data in support of D615S is just based on it being found in a lot of isolates-- but that would also be seen in the case of founder effect.
+10,000% !!!
Except on StackOverflow all of those are unpaid voluntary community moderators. There are less than ten people being paid by SO in community facing positions as far as I know. Also, they recently fired two of their most long-standing community managers.

But StackOverflow (the company) is more than just public Q&A, and in fact public Q&A is not primarily how they make their money. Job ads and SO for teams seem to be the main revenue sources.
Can you cite the information you have that makes this clear to you?
This problem seems to be getting a lot of research lately. The problem being how to process PDEs on complex domains because meshing is a bitch. There seem to be a number of good approaches, NURBS Fea, this, Lawerence Livermore and Caltech just come out with a polygonal mesher.

I wonder how tractable and accurate they are from the solver side. Because generating high quality meshes really is a pain in the ass.
I've heard several anecdotal reports of long-lasting fatigue after a recent infection. Not all of those are confirmed COVID, due to difficulties in accessing testing. And it's too recent to know how long it will last. But it's worrying, since this is a symptom of some other viral infections that's not well understood and can have big quality of life impact.
Your comment that I replied to directly describes a conspiracy and you did not substantiate it with evidence.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspiracy
Take an inspiration from 'existing' ones - extremely hard and focused work on your goals, no excuses, no slacking. As with most things in real world, you need some talent/genes to start with but that alone won't get you there
Pretty tone deaf.

> We are facing this situation together.

Well, approximately 85% of you are.
I agree with you that maximizing profit as the sole metric is a myth, which is perhaps why I didn't mention it.

However, in practice if one has taken $10m from investors looking for a big payday, one can't just do any old thing. Doing something sufficiently contrary to the interests of minority shareholders could certainly result in a lawsuit. Could the shareholders win? Who knows! As you say, it's a murky area. But winning in that case isn't what matters. The lawsuit will tie the company up for years, forcing significant spending. And if they include the CEO in the lawsuit, it will mean personal expense and an enormous headache. So in practice, the Keybase execs couldn't just say, "Fuck it, we won't sell to Zoom, everything is open source now." Not without talking it through with the investors, anyhow.
They are doing a good job and they have been preparing for such a pandemic for years.

Countries that are faring best today are those that have worked with the WHO and heard its advice.
Concordokken is permanent in this one, though. Not sure the same risk calculus applies.
Agree this is interesting, and user mode looks like legacy for some major domains.

For example, if you are building a grid computer, you don't need mechanisms that were designed to protect university students from one another. Consider if everything is driven from a single codebase. Your type system can provide protections that have traditionally been done by the kernel.

I am currently playing with this. Have a boot loader up, and a handoff to c++. Today I am looking at page-management.

There are some interesting trade-offs that come from unconventional approaches like this. For example, I have read that if you make SIMD registers available to the kernel, it hurts the performance of context-switching. (https://os.phil-opp.com/minimal-rust-kernel/)

A mitigation I am considering: do all interrupt handling on one core, and then have all other cores for work-processing. Use channels to communicate between the burnt interrupt core and the worker cores. Downside of this: worker cores would need to poll for new messages. In low-activity periods, I could slow the poll interval. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has gone deep on this, or knows of papers.
> 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.

How so?

> 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.

I think that's just you drawing conclusions out of thin air. I don't believe most people would be doing nothing. Why should they? Would you? I wouldn't. Also we could just have contracts saying that if you want receive the benefits of being part of society, you must also contribute at least, say 15 hours a week of work, or whatever we figure out is necessary.

If there then ends up being people that don't contribute what they should, people in the immediate community would then, on a case-by-case basic, try to solve the problem by talking with the person, and so on. If nothing works, take away the benefits until the person are willing to partake in the community again. Make them understand that you have to contribute to be receive the benefits.

> 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.

You do know that most people in the whole wide world do actually work, don't you? They already contribute plenty. Why do you think they would contribute less if 1) it meant more of their needs were met, and 2) they had more choice about how to contribute because society wasn't driven by profits that fill of a few peoples pockets, but by meeting everyones needs.

I think most people would contribute, just like most people today actually are contributing. And I actually think even more would be contributing and do it willingly, and we could reach new heights for humanity if contributions wasn't based on forced labour but instead of people feeling as a part of a cooperative community where their needs are valued and their voices are heard.
One day you wake up and realize that you spent your life maintaining your system to improve your life instead of actually improving your life.
In the general population? No.

You could give aspirin to the entire population to prevent heart attacks and strokes, and for every life you save from heart attack or stroke you prevent, you'll kill someone else by bleeding in the gut or brain. I don't know what the total risk of a severe outcome from COVID19 is, but the risk of serious bleeds on aspirin is 1/200. That's high.

Edit: I should probably add that the aspirin bleeding risk is not "1 aspirin out of 200 causes bleeding", but rather 1/200 people who are on daily aspirin to prevent heart issues will develop serious bleeding.
Would the right move have been to see the value you could give to the client, and charge more at that point for an additional service to capture some of this value?
Same here, for me it has been mostly about .NET, Java or anything else with JIT/AOT compilers out of the box, after my AOLServer like experience.

Back then we already had Zope and it wasn't blazing fast.
February 1st to be specific, that was when they tweeted that it doesn't transmit between humans.
A New Perspective
Unpopular opinion indeed!
I'm still not convinced he isn't!
Overpaid FAANG executives humble bragging about walking away from millions because of a sudden crisis of conscience qualifies as an entire genre at this point and my only question is why did it take these people so long to realize they were working for Evil Corp?
How would you be resistant without getting infected? There's no vaccine.
would this work on maxwell's equations?
The US should be dissolved
I wonder when was the last time you used C# then.
And how much does Hetzners nosql/relational db, emr solution, faas, etc cost? Solutions aren’t built the traditional way anymore. You don’t go get some cots server and write everything yourself. So while you’re futzing around getting a database installed, tuned and setup the engineer using a more complete cloud platform has already moved onto business logic.
It’s way, way more complicated than that. There are the LPs, who sometimes have clients / constituents, GPs, who can be complex entities or individuals or both, operating partners, banks, who obviously wouldn’t lend for LBOs if every one of them busted, equity owners of the target, debt holders of the target, management of the target. All of these parties have their own incentive structures which are lined up in order for an LBO to take place.
> The GDPR only covers personally identifiable data

some data protection officers think any two linked clicks are personally identifiable.

If have read the full cookie ruling, in some passages it's about "saving" (in all senses) any data without consent - yes it sometimes talks about personally identifiable but the "saving" part doesn't care.

To be clear, I don't think that, but it's hard to make our service comply if the customers (think webshop) data protection officers follows that semi official guideline
If you are curious, the wikipedia article on the WHO answers the question of their mandate in the first few paragraphs already.
Can you list even a single thing they have done a good job of in their handling of this crisis? And which countries are you referring to exactly which have worked with them and are doing well? They won't even acknowledge Taiwan which is handling this better than almost every other country.
WHO said for weeks it wasn't transmittable between humans, that countries should not impose travel restrictions, and insisting late into the pandemic that you don't need to wear masks unless you're infected.

Arguably the WHO has blood on its hands for allowing the virus to spread.

They unquestionably are influenced by China and CCP's politics, not just denying Taiwan's existence, but the many statements praising China throughout the entire pandemic, on virtually all talking points, while being critical of western nations handling of the virus.

If ever there was a time to take action, point fingers, and restore some dignity to supposedly independent health organizations, it is now, by creating a new organization.
> it's finally conceivable to have software that works reliably.

Care to elaborate what you mean by that?
One of the few bio safety level 4 labs in the world, but it's not simple as pointing a finger at a lab alone.

The University of Wuhan and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have worked collaboratively on research on a SARS like novel coronavirus found in Chinese Horseshoe bats back in 2015 [1].

The research, as noted on the bottom of the report, was funded by grants from National Institute of Health (under Anthony Fauci's leadership), US AID Emerging Pandemic Threats program and other funding sources, including many US based researchers.

[1]- https://nature.com/articles/nm.3985
The current director ISN'T EVEN A DOCTOR. He's old guard politician for the Ethiopian government. He covered up THREE cholera outbreaks that killed a lot of people in his country.

China hold over a quarter of Ethiopian debt. They also only give aid to countries that do what they say and vote as they want in the UN (countries that don't lose billions in investment -- a huge amount of money for small, impoverished countries in Africa).
What I remember reading was something like "there is no evidence that the virus can be transmitted by humans" , was it uncovered that there was such evidence and was hidden?

I see that is a lot of China blaming but I seen US politicians and media were also pushing strong into "there is no evidence" and is just the flu.

Anyway this entire "show" just confirms my view on politics, the big trick to use is "Blame the others, we had the power but all the other parties are at fault we have no blame",
There is no debate. Healthcare workers are invariably wearing masks around all patients, regardless of known COVID19 status.

It is simply irresponsible to claim that wearing masks offers only marginal benefit. This is a respiratory virus, it is transmitted by droplets.

The downvoting of this plain truth ought to scare anyone who values science over politics.
Taiwan's response to Covid-19 is based on WHO's advice. It's working quite well.
Fraudulent Apps on the Google Play Store: Covid-19 Contact Tracing Edition
> Isn't that what we should do?

It depends on the costs of doing so.
TLDR: first deployment of Form Energy's "aqueous air" grid battery, 1 megawatt, 150 megawatt hour, no tech details.

MIT professor founder, backed by Bill Gates amongst others.

According to MIT tech review [0] , their main line of research is an "air-breathing aqueous sulfur flow battery".
> There's no namespacing between packages. They can run right over each other and cause weird bugs. This isn't theoretical; it's what happens when you have a bunch of packages installed. Sorting out performance issues caused by the interactions between packages is very challenging.

The worst aspect of this is keybindings. As "free-form" as Emacs is, I think it would benefit greatly from having a centralized "database" of all (custom?) keybindings. I am sick of defining my own super-cool keybinding and then either having it get overridden by a package or unknowingly overriding a package's keybindings. I kind of wish a warning would be thrown or something if you try to bind a set of keys that's already bound.

I don't know what system would be good/better, but I know I hate it as it stands today.
Taiwan is not a member of the UN so WHO kind of have to act that way.

It sucks, but that's a problem with the UN, not with WHO specifically.
No it does not? Stating facts is not a conspiracy.
> Now every website has a mandatory popup.

Stop spreading this disinformation. It's just the filthy websites that track your every move on the site and then give it to third parties.

Would you rather they do that by default, extracting your data before you even notice, without even being able to distinguish the bad actor from the good actor?

The problem is that people think it's the cookie banner that's annoying, when it's in fact the very website that has been secretly abusing your privacy, except now they tell you.

The people think that agreeing to the tracking banner is a fair transaction because the adtech banner is being disingenuous. It's as if the entrance to a museum requires you to dump one empty battery in the ocean. It's a bit of a hassle but it doesn't cost you anything, and you get to see the museum which is what you want.

Except in 90% of the cases the museum is clickbait trash.

I mean I agree. No website should use cookie banners. None of them. Increasing fines all around for those adtech fuckheads.
So you were hoping that someone can make any claim with no support and everyone else must scramble to prove them wrong? The burden of proof is on the one making the claim. More so when making such a bold statement. Otherwise it would make for some very unpleasant conversations where people just maliciously throw around any accusation that comes to mind.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/eu-budget/documents/publi...

https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/annualreports-2...