skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the linked response to his initial post from Brad Porter is actually the single slimiest business communication I think I've ever read. Snake.

What is it about corporations that strips your personhood?

EDIT: On further inspection, the other post (by Anton Okmyanskiy) is actually worse. The undercurrent of "Yes, we're being evil. No, we're not going to change in meaningful ways. I don't even feel bad about the ways we're currently being evil. Why? Ideology!" within it is somehow slimier: with Porter, he's at least lacking self-awareness (or public-facing self-awareness), but in Okmyanskiy's case, it's definitely there, he just doesn't care.
News alert: Americans lie and/or are misinformed on surveys.
I admire the work of the FBI against hate groups and extremists. However, one only needs to look at their work against BLM or the Civil Rights Movement to see that they are part of the same structure.

Workers unifying across social divisions is the greatest threat to oppressing the people. It is the most powerful method we have of gaining material freedom and our most basic human dignities, regardless of ethnic identity.

Some of our most deeply exploited white citizens are convinced that they have it better than others while they experience collapsing infrastructure, life on government benefits, prescription epidemics, growing government overreach, and erosion of their working rights. They also make up the heart of white supremacists and domestic extremists, while more fortunate liberal territories are convinced to despise and separate themselves from their fellow workers.

In short, our nation is divided by hatred and the result is a populace that is easier to control, oppress, and economically exploit. Overcoming this hatred and unifying is the key to securing our future and basic liberties from corporate and government authoritarianism.
Many times there is a heavy dose of misanthropy in these environmental discussions. Phrases like "humanity is a virus", etc.

I would like to share a different perspective.There is a saying, "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."

Even if humanity overburdens the planet and goes extinct in the next 100 years, I prefer what we have now, than if we had remained hunter-gatherers or pre-industrial.

We have spread out to every corner of the world. With irrigation, farming, heating, air-conditioning, etc, we have transformed the most inhospitable habitats into thriving cities. Members of our species have even set foot on the moon.

We have improved the quality of life for members of our species, especially the poorest. If you had to be born as a female child to a random mother, there is no other time in the humanity's existence where you would be better off than now.

We invented language that can express the deepest and most profound thoughts to the person standing next to us, and invented writing that can encode it in a form that can be understood millennia later, and invented telecommunication that can transmit it instantly anywhere in the world.

Our concept of the "universe" has grown. It is no longer the local grassland or forest. It is no longer a steppe or continent, or even our globe. Our concept of the universe includes solar systems and galaxies and super-clusters, and even the possibilities of a multi-verse.

All animals try to control their environment, but we have learned to do so on an unprecedented scale. We learned early how to control the large fauna that could eat us. Most humans walk freely about, safe from large predators. We also, much later, learned how to control the small predators - the bacteria and viruses.

We have also learned how to control ourselves. We learned how to control reproduction. We can keep from getting pregnant when we have sex, if we desire, or get pregnant without having sex. We can organize into communities and coordinate and cooperate at a scale and sophistication beyond any other animal.

So, if this time is the time that we have ultimately outstripped the earth's capacity to support us (unlike the many, many false alarms in the past), then I say, cheers to humanity: we have lived, we have loved, we have laughed, we have wept, we have left our mark in our corner of the universe.

Yes, let us try to develop technology and do things that help ensure humanity can stay like this for much, much longer. But let us not disparage humanity and all we have accomplished.
Like you I also come from a third-world country and this sort of thing is also the advice there.

Now I live in a much better country and I no longer have to fear the police. Quite a change.

There is no way why this has to be the way it is. If you are afraid of the police, it is the police's fault. Time to start arresting them and cleaning up.
Thanks! Had a nice chat with karlicoss earlier this week to compare notes.
The nm numbers are marketing. Processes are too nuanced to boil down to a single number.
While I, like you, am against both state-sponsored murder of innocents and fascism, I believe you are using the word “fascism” incorrectly here. In my understanding of the word, fascism is a principle where corporations and the state make common cause against the people, whom they seek to exploit or control, respectively. This is not the same kind of thing as state-sanktioned death squads; even though they might be equal in their offensiveness, one should take care not to equate them. It is a grave mistake to bundle up all of one’s dislikes and call them all the same; they are not. Many things are even fundamentally opposed, but equally abhorrent.
I tend to agree, but remember that we need to include livestock in the population counts of mouths to feed.
https://www.davidsongifted.org/search-database/entry/a10489

The first few paragraphs are fun / scary.
> My sister is a DA so I hear the other side of this. Police are people and they can get scared, angry, and make mistakes.

Except unlike people in other professions, when police get scared, angry, and make mistakes, other people die. In other sectors, where courts, politicians and the public haven't been brain-washed by the never-ending chorus of 'officer safety', people with that kind of power are held to a commensurate level of accountability. That's the central issue, which you're attempting to side-step.

> Deaths at the hands of police are always horrible but an important message that is not broadcast clearly enough in every community is... NEVER RESIST ARREST!

Aside from a clear victim-blaming bias, even casual observation rules this out as a panacea. Far from it.
But with ARC the compiler also does compile-time tracking to figure out when object references are shared and unshared, and based on that analysis inserts retain/release calls at the right points in the program (or more importantly: avoids the refcount overhead completely when it is not needed - e.g. when ownership is moved, not shared).

If mitten can do complete compile-time analysis also for all sorts of shared references and thus can avoid refcounting completely at all times then this would indeed be a nice improvement.
The article fails to show how dangerous those situations are.

A pneumonia patient walking through a hospital where people are recovering from strokes and heart attacks.

Wrestling with a police officer on a busy highway.

You can close down municipalities or live in places where there are no police. Then other people kill you for acting like a jerk. Beaten to death by the nurses or blasted apart by oncoming traffic.

So much better.
I hear this a lot, but if I'm not mistaken other law enforcement organizations in other European nations with equally strict gun laws and a citizen culture of not wanting guns have armed police. While traveling into Germany, getting off the plane in Frankfurt I'm greeted by Polizei carrying full auto capable sub-machine guns (mostly HK MP5s, some HK G36Ks). Even in America it's rare to see police open carrying anything more than a pistol and I've never traveled through an airport and seen weapons like that either, including Airports at our nations capital (Dulles to be exact).
Why are services slow sometimes?
So fucking what, yuour cops are pussies, and need to stop being pussies, any words beyond that is fascism.

Feel free to downvote, just know that it is not my boot on your face.
It’s not “business as usual” in Sweden. Many are now questioning their approach.
From what I can tell, the OpenCV C code is directly compiled to wasm bytecode; the only JS part is some helper code to let you easily call wasm functions from your own code.
I see it as a natural transition:

Ad Blocker > Disable Javascript > Disable Cookies

It is simple with uMatrix and it just works. Click on * for global scopes, unselect 1st-party. Rules should be

* * * block
* * css allow
* * frame block
* * image allow
* 1st-party frame allow

Still can be tracked by third-party images and css with fingerprinting and IP address...

Of course it does not matter once javascript allowed - youtube tracked me fine without cookies. Private browsing and uBlocks could help only so much.

About firefox containers - why where is no version for those who do not care about broken sites? It is certainly possible - code is there https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ - would you use it? Would you build it?
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I agree some of them are bad hence my edit. The problem is two sided and we should address problems on both sides.
That seems to be the case, seems that's also why Cuomo wanted 30k ventilators, only got 2k and a lot of those went into storage unused.

As a leader you really have to take a deep breath and not let emotions get the better of you.

Over-preparedness and knee-jerk reactions can hurt you.

I'm glad we didn't fulfill the request for 30k ventilators and take away from other states/countries that needed it.
This is the issue with an authoritarian government that kills dissenters.

It's very likely that it originated naturally from a bat or other animal and made it's way into the wet market. But the government denying denying early on, the doctor blowing the whistle early on that is now dead, and the shut down of research coming out of China into the origins means that information about the virus can never be taken one hundred percent seriously.

Trump and his administration lie constantly about his response, but there are journalists and people he has fired (as opposed to have killed, disappeared, thrown out.a window, etc) that can put together evidence about what is going on with the virus and other issues in the US.

I absolutely have no faith in the Chinese government ever letting any information out that one of their labs was the cause of the globe pandemic if they were.
This actually exists in Racket and the DrRacket IDE for it. You could actually even use images as variable names, so back in school there was a funny lesson where the professor used the image of a sailboat as a variable name everywhere and joked "why wouldn't you be able to?"
It's also the government that forced the economy to shut down. I think it's fair that if they are going to force close the economy they shoulder the burden
There is a open source digital forensics project called APOLLO (https://github.com/mac4n6/APOLLO) -- that could be used for personal use to get location information off your phone. Here's a blog post by the author, with a little bit of explanation:

https://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2019/8/21/i-know-where-you-were-...
Hey, one of the creators here. All the changes you make to your records sync immediately to your sheets, but we store the comments etc. on our side.
My functional language Winter has errors like that. You can compute the maximum memory usage of the program and then throw an error if it exceeds some threshold.

Edit: I'll add that there are lots of programs the prover can't effectively handle right now, so can't compute a good memory bound. It works fine for some relatively simple programs however.
> What bad news do you expect to cause the market to decrease by 70%?

The recession we've just entered?

> States are opening up with success

Sure, and the Iraq War was winding down back in 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech
The four priorities of a one-person analytics team: lessons from Lola.com (2019)
"Except unlike people in other professions, when police get scared, angry, and make mistakes, other people die."

Fair point, hence the edit.
Docker Desktop is arriving to Windows 10 home edition
I have been a fan of NewEgg if ordering computer gear online. I personally like the fact that they stand up to patent troll law suits and spend the money to actually go to court.
That's not the salary. That's how much the agency is charging for them.
> Someone reading this might be wondering how speciation can be measured with viruses, since viruses don't reproduce sexually.

Viruses clearly reproduce with humans. By a strict "reproduction / species" definition, Viruses are human.
> corporations and the state make common cause against the people, whom they seek to exploit or control, respectively.

That's exactly the primary purpose of the police. The police serves capital and the state (which also serves capital) in order to exploit and control the people.
Beautiful Chemistry
Remember timecube guy? Seen on a 16-bit DSP...

struct timecube {
uint16_t millisecond_of_minute;
uint16_t minute_of_month;
uint16_t month_and_year;
};
You forgot new employee 0:

1. Install Emacs

2. Finds magit

3. Questions reality before swimming in new found joy
There's a big problem with the statement and that is 'free stuff' vs. 'actual productivity' - it kind of implies a misunderstanding that I think is at the root of so many instinctive reactions to calamity.

First, socialization and central planning at that scale is essentially communism, so start with that.

Second, if almost nobody is working, then 'stuff' doesn't get made, and you can't feed or house many people for long. We know from history, that even if people could work, the government isn't really good at organizing a lot of that kind of activity.

If we want 'food' for people there is no way around the fact we must have people doing all the various bits of work that get food to our plates: farms, delivery, processing, grocery, transport. And that system depends on everything else.

Of course, we need more than food - housing etc. depends on so much as well.

So the answer cannot be 'print money' because that literally doesn't do anything.

The answer has to be something along the lines of: 'how do we get back to work safely'?

There might be some long term opportunities with housing and healthcare, but there are already so many things screwed up there, that basic regulatory changes could yield massive opportunities long before even the argument for socialization begins. Outrageous hospital billing, odd zoning, bad labour laws etc.. So much low-hanging fruit.
Indeed, and you can see on nexstrain (The green RNA region labeled S) that there has been a very prolific functional mutation to the Spike Protein RNA. It is possible that the rapid growth of that strain (in Europe and NY) is due to either a founders effect or higher transmissibility (researchers do not see higher mortality, but may see higher viral load). There are possibilities that it changes the effectiveness of immune response, but it’s all under active research. The outcomes are very significant and unknown. Making broad fairly pedantic statements as the OP has, is unhelpful to understanding.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/05/07/mu...
There are a number of people who didn't get the care they needed because surgeries for critical things like removing rotting teeth or even some heart surgery were marked as non-critical. They should have kept hospitals running, reprioritized their current schedules, and started cancelling once they saw the influx.

The way this was executed was terrible. The whole point was that hospitals didn't get overloaded so people with critical needs can get treated. It's the absolute definition of irony that cancelling everything had the exact same effect.
Intel has faster tech in their pocket? 5 years ago I would have believed you. But they have seen the AMD zen architecture for years now and they can't meaningfully compete anymore. If they had tech ready to go they would have released it by now to crush AMD.
Health Care Used to Be Recession-Proof. Not Anymore
If it happens gradually, we may never wake up to it. For all I know, our biosphere is an already collapsed version of yesterday's, yet we usually see it more as a better version of tomorrow's.
yes I check back my previous leetcode submissions before interview and sometimes amazed how the hell did i come up with that.
Process isn’t everything, but they’re not just marketing. The process has a huge impact on the heat & power characteristics of the core, and also controls how much stuff you can stuff into a die.
Marketwatch, Barron's, WSJ, etc... all down the Murdoch tube of no editorial integrity. Had to stop following those news sources when they started the downhill slide.
To be honest with all the tooling around programming languages nowadays I haven’t encountered a bug caused by off-by-one error in years. The other two though ... yeah still true :)
was there an actual hammer involved in the game at this point? I think then it would be great, most of these cute, funny bits of code are making me feel annoyed by proxy.
Yeah.. headcount by country isn't a very useful stat in an analysis like this that is obviously non-exhaustive and potentially biased in selection.
The expert in question was about 4 feet away from him and confirmed what he said immediately, and repeatedly.
I couldn't read after the introduction.
The cost of these field hospitals is negligible and I am not upset about them. But I am upset that the healthcare system seems to have been nowhere near capacity. Which means we are paying the full cost of the lockdown while not getting the full return in term of herd immunity, which we will pay later on with more lockdowns probably starting in fall. In other words we overreacted and flattened the curve too much.
Well, I think body cameras are the most important technological solution. Unfortunately they're still huge problems with how the footage is dealt with and who is allowed to handle it. How many times have you seen police abuse cases where the body camera "wasn't running" or the footage was "lost"? I remember the NYT article a month or two ago about the police officer planting cocaine. The only reason he was caught was because he tried to shut his body cam off and didn't do it correctly. Unfortunately he still didn't receive reasonable punishment, but we at least know about it because of the cameras.
I actually rather miss the commenting on Fabien's site. IIRC, he initially kept the comments underneath the older articles, but now those are gone too. On his site at least, the comments were frequently quite insightful or at least asking interesting questions.

Yes, there's also spam and trolling in comments, but eliminating them entirely feels like a waste and cuts off an important way of interacting with the readers. At least personally, I'm far more likely to ask a question or to point out a mistake in a comment than I am to send off an e-mail.
It was in Java...but I C where you are going with this.
100 years may be optimistic.

And I don't think young people or children today deserve an agonizing life watching their loved ones, their own children, perhaps, starving to death or dying in a water war.

Also you don't need to be a hunter gatherer to not rape the planet.
Being obsessed with RocketChart almost killed it
> Generally lockdown in the US has been pretty loose.

I'd like to see the same study done outside of NY, because the NY lockdown was one of the most stringent in the country, from what I've read.
Definition of on the dole:
Unemployed and in receipt of state benefit.

Origin of on the dole:
In the UK, Unemployment Benefit has been known by the slang term 'the dole' since WWI. This derives from the 'doling out', that is, 'handing out' of charitable gifts of food or money.
Yea it’s like buying a fire extinguisher and then being mad that you never had to use it
My wife is an operating room circulating nurse at Beaumont in Michigan (Metro Detroit).
Lots of people without the title of nurse (RN) are furloughed or laid off. Entire hospitals are closed and covid19 patients transferred to other hospitals. Cleaning and supporting staff has been cut down to bare minimums to save costs. She is being sent home early most days due to low volume, impacting her pay too.

She worked covid19 ER shifts receiving walk in patients coughing like hell. That dried up a month ago and she had the choice to stay home or work night shifts on the floor medicating and caring exclusively for covid19 patience. So she did night shifts for two weeks. Now she is back on her regular position, underemployed.

She laughed about the field hospitals. Now, here in Michigan, we are all, including Nurses and hospitals, sitting around most of the day doing nothing and waiting for some miracle.

There was never a capacity issue she knows of. Only shortages of PPE.
I think you confused this with security.txt standard. WKD is not enumerable (unless explicitly configured like that) so the issue doesn't exist.
And they wonder why employee loyalty is a thing of the past. In previous generations, it was not uncommon for people to start and end a career with one company. Companies respected that loyalty, and the employees worked hard to earn it. Now, a 2-3 year stint at the same company start to look weird on your resume.
It is a war. Everyone has an ethnicity, and our ideas of race are shaped by a long legacy of racial hatred and exclusion.

Our white working citizens need to realize that all workers are unified in our exploitation for basic human necessities. That is a practical way that we can overcome the hatred that is dividing us and facilitating the destruction of our liberties.
I feel like you're trying to make some sort of reductio ad absurdum argument.

Yes, the flu kills people. So do lightning strikes. Airplane crashes. And anvils falling out of windows. None at anywhere near the scale of C19.

There's a balance. I don't claim to know exactly where that is, but I'm confident that "meh, granny's gonna die anyways, and I want to buy stuff and get a pedicure" is a rather ghastly approach to the current situation.
Qualified immunity is the most egregious example of "judicial activism", yet the people who complain about it are the same people that support it.

The difference is things like gay marriage are a lot more visible.
Especially when it comes to data structures. It's so helpful to see a comment with an example of the structure of a variable, especially because you won't have the same context when you come back to it in a few months.

I know some people don't feel that way, because I've been dinged for it in code reviews as something that should be covered in unit tests. But I think digging through unit tests to glean the structure of an object adds a lot of overhead.
India with 36$/hour in "web and software developers", is it correct ?

Portugal with 37$, never seen such salaries here..