skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've also never seen it matter.

It matters plenty of times. If Turbo Tax doesn't ship their 20xx edition by Jan 1 20xx, they're losing sales. I also work on (non-tax-related) software that is tied to specific dates by regulations coming into effect on certain dates. I don't think this is rare.
Perhaps there hasn't been interest in building such an app for food delivery yet, but there's definitely been for ridesharing, see the various replacements that arose in Austin after Uber and Lyft were banned there. The most difficult problem would seem to be a lack of will and incentive, at the moment.
Lessons from a Year in the Data Science Trenches (2019)
It's a shame that the somewhat breathless headline is dominating the discussion.

This is a good idea, which hasn't even been demonstrated to work with electric cars and roads.

What it has been demonstrated to work for, is robots in warehouses, and in that context it's great: this would allow ~99% utilization and obviate laying out warehouse space for charging docks.
I agree on the start up time point. I don't know how slow most people's experience is, and I don't use emacs, but I really can't imagine people aren't using emacs because of a few extra seconds it takes to open your code.

To your second, rather obnoxious point: when they said 'out of touch', they didn't mean 'hasn't been in communication'. They meant he doesn't understand the attitudes/motivations/requirements of the community.
That strikes me as a unproductive threshold to maintain a lockdown. what do you think?

Also, I check and there are no states experiencing exponential growth.
Results of Finland’s Basic Income Experiment
"using logic"
It's being enforced. https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ The huge list of people or organisations that come into compliance after an admonishment from the data commissioner does not even make the news.

> implementation measures like clarification

No directive needs clarification to be implemented as law. That's the most absurd thing I've heard all year.
-Q shouldn’t give you any better startup time than vanilla emacs.
Clearly my Emacs origins show here

I think so. The Emacs philosophy is essentially to treat the editor like a highly-customizable IDE. I use Vim only because I want a Vi that has a few quality-of-life tweaks here and there (the undo tree works fine for me without any plugins, I just use g- and g+). I don't use the vast majority of what was added. The core of what I want was created by Bill Joy back in the 70s.

I want a text editor that works the same whether I'm editing a C source code file or a text file that happens to have some C pasted into it or a configuration file or a file that looks superficially like C but happens to be a different language. I'm not interested in an IDE. I would prefer that most of those language-specific tools be separate programs that I can invoke by shelling out.

Performance issues in Vim are usually caused by various autocompletion engines, none of which I use. I like Vim's built-in completion which is very simple and predictable (fitting the theme), invoked using C-x in insert mode.
> love and admiration

I don't know about that, I hate agendas. A hammer does not have one, and that does not make it a less useful tool.
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 Review: Low-End Gaming Gets a High-End Boost
But from what I understand this replaces gevent, you still use gunicorn to manage workers?
Having been exposed to the original (I believe from DECUS tapes but I am unsure from this distance in time) back in the 70s' I played the BSD fortran cross-port on machines I had, but the thing is, the nostalgia kick is satisfied from low degrees of engagement.

I think my personal tabular room-connectivity map I hand crafted in vi is still lurking on backup media, it was fun making it.

No robots and washing machines here.
We replaced our Nests with Ecobees after Google merged Nest accounts into Google accounts breaking all of my third party integrations for scraping our data and controlling them. No regrets.
Yes, this seems to be one of the rather clever aspects of the design - this appears to make it possible to discover iOS devices that are in the proprietary "iOS-only" mode of discovery.

It seems that once one of these "overflow" advertisements is discovered, it attempts a connect that is enough to wake the device and carry out normal tracing.

I left an iPhone unplugged, stationary, idle and asleep, running the app for about 5 hours. Then introduced an Android device and it was detected immediately. That seems to suggest this aspect works well.

There's also a clever "ping-pong" type keepalive system at play - there are multiple characteristics broadcast, and one of them is for keep-alive. It seems devices also use this keepalive to keep the app active over time. That should work with even 2 devices - if I understand it correctly, device A will K/A device B after a period of time, and this will cause B to act. That means B will then K/A device A after a period of time, and the cycle can continue.

I see the concerns about "2 sleeping iOS devices might not find each other", but wonder to what extent this will be a realistic scenario, versus an academic one - given the extent to which people are on their phones these days, and the size of that population, the issue likely fades in significance. Especially considering no app will get full adoption, no system will ever be perfect, and it's very much all about probabilities - the app can't determine if your 30 second exposure was higher risk than 30 minutes sitting 5m apart. Hopefully the testing phase currently underway will give some insight as to if this is a problem.
Offering debt as a way to finance regular life activities like school and housing is also a good way to paper over the other, equally serious problems we currently have in the US, an explosion in the cost of school and housing, compared to what people earn.

If people didn't have debt as a way to access these things, there might be more energy for addressing the income inequality and lack of class mobility we have, that's being obscured by the access to debt.
You're basically arguing that if a company pays a CEO what good CEOs get paid then they could pay their workers more instead. But that doesn't work, because you have to pay a CEO what good CEOs get paid if you want a good CEO.

The shareholders can't just hire a random janitor at a janitor's salary to be the CEO and expect to not lose more money to unqualified decisionmaking than they would've had to pay a real CEO.

Likewise, they can't just make zero profits forever, because otherwise they couldn't raise capital. If they're a new company they need that investment in order to buy land and build the factory etc. If they're an existing company then they still need that, or the shareholders would sell their shares and the only buyer would be a corporate raider who wants to tear down the factory for scrap and sell the land to a condo developer.

Salaries and profits are relative to the market average. Unless the company is paying its executives more than the average company, or making more profits than the average company, they don't really have a surplus they can give to the workers without becoming uncompetitive.
You could probably get some decent benefit by only doing it in some special spots. I.e. intersections in cities where people stop for periods of time, or maybe parking spaces? I like the idea of removing cables from the situation and rather than ensuring i get an "unlimited" duration drive, i get 25% additional by just being on the road.
Ask HN: What affects live stream video quality
I've been watching a lot of live streams in the last month. YouTube seems to have the best video quality and Facebook and StageIt the worst. But I watched a StageIt concert the other day and was inadvertently still connected to my company VPN and the video quality was quite good. Could Comcast be rate-limiting StageIt, but they can't tell I'm live streaming over a VPN? What else affects the quality?
- Platform (Facebook, YouTube, etc.)
- Upload Speed of the Performer
- Download Speed of the Listener
- VPN Usage
- Wifi Quality of the Listener
- Airplay Quality
- other?
The title is a great test for conversational AI. I thought this was about driving (in a car) engineers to an arbitrary (blind) date.
That would seem to increase risk of loss system-wide though.

I'm not arguing what you're saying is untrue as that appears to be what is happening. I'm arguing this behavior is irrational. If investment opportunities decline, investment should decline and sitting on savings should increase.
Which South Bay neighborhoods have more action?

In Palo Alto, I see some people out and about but almost everyone is wearing a mask, sticking with family groups, and mindful of keeping a distance from other groups of people. The only exception is parks, which I avoid like the plague.
Those looks like differences and matters of preference not anything "wrong" about it.
On codebases that have had this sort of mass file-moving, one tactic I've used is keeping a link to the commit prior to the file-moving. Then I can check out that version, manually browse to the file's prior location, and use git blame. It's manual and tedious, but it works.

Perhaps one mitigation could be to include a message describing something like this in the git commit for the mass-move.
Graphics Card Power Consumption Tested: Which GPUs Slurp the Most Juice?
> 'press i and then basically everything works as you'd expect' is pretty simple

If that means that you can press letters in they keyboard and see them appear in the screen that’s also true in Emacs... and you don’t even have to press ‘i’ for things to start working as expected.
Breaking a Monopoly
The example given is a strawman of a classic cigar-chomping executive whose philosophy comes largely from unskilled, fungible-labor economies.

I use this exact strawman to bounce ideas off of people and play devil's advocate.

He's such an integral part of my routine that I even gave him a name and a function: Richard Johnson, CEO of a pate factory.
they did! but not before i returned mine. the worst part was that your hands blocked the lens if they were on the keyboard... such egregious design(s) flipped me away from dell laptops
T-Mobile. Was a Verizon user until 2011 or 12. Actually when I switched T-Mobile felt like an upgrade in LA (especially it worked inside buildings that Verizon didn't), it was not great in rural areas but never had problems in LA.
>"NYC has been on lockdown for weeks."

It's actually been since March 22nd so well into its second month now. When the order is lifted on the 15th it will be a week shy of two months. On it's face anyway the news definitely isn't encouraging.
This discussion appears related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23041146.
If you went to any of those places before the pandemic, you wouldn't have seen any empty storefronts.

Just because it squeezed Neiman Marcus, doesn't mean other stores could afford it.

Of course, everything has changed now. Will landlords have to lower their rents in response? Maybe.
should try this in erlang/elixir. i’m gonna bet you it could handle hundred of thousands of connections on a beefy machine (an million of connections w/ optimizations)
Science is political. Get over yourself.
>This is why it took a long time. The city was handing over management over part of itself in perpetuity. That needs to be done with care and deliberation.

The city has the right at any time to revoke the MOU between the city and this group, so there wasn't really risk there. I understand that care should be taken, but at a certain point you begin having serious inefficiencies.

>Moreover, there are liability issues related to third parties making alterations to city lands that could result in ruinous liability to the city if citizens get injured on the altered lands and the city didn't fully inspect the alterations.
This is through an IMBA chapter which accepts all liability and responsibility and includes insurance coverage. This is not some new, unique thing that is happening. There are many dozens if not hundreds of these agreements in place in other cities already.

>You also have potential drainage and soil issues to deal with, which need to be reviewed by geologists. And that's not getting into environmental reviews if there are at-risk species dwelling in that park.
There aren't major structures being put in place, and most of the parks around here have very, very degraded ecosystems except in a few notable, well known locations.

>All of those things take time. Programmers always complain about their customers wanting X in a few weeks when it really takes months.

>So why are programmers always complaining that it takes engineers, geologists, architects, and city planners months to do their jobs? Unlike programming, the stuff these professionals are doing/reviewing can't just be fixed with a patch.
For what its worth I'm an electrical engineer, not a programmer, that deals more with manufacturing. My last job involved electronics for explosive atmospheres that were expected to last 10+ years minimum, so I have a good understanding of not being able to quickly send out fixes with a patch.

The process wasn't really transparent, so it really felt like people kind of dragging their feet and being very resistant to change. Something my city is known for (see famous Mark Twain quote about Cincy and the end of the world). I understand very well taking months to do things, but years for something like this is maddening.
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Well, if I have a backend serving views, then sky is the limit :).

But I really meant a self-contained, fully front-end piece of JS. One you could feed a data table and let the user play with it.

A side issue I'm hinting at is that I believe the features I mentioned should be present by default in any kind of tabular display. Without them, the users are getting shafted - they're served data in front of them (be it item prices, virus stats, or a restaurant menu), but they have no way to explore it on their own. This is but a small piece in a great set of ways in which our industry ensures the users can't ever grow and become more proficient, and then complains that users are dumb. Can't have a bicycle for the mind if pedals and handlebar are not provided.
His comment literally states that it's possible but that we just don't want it enough. Not enough funding is the most direct manifestation of that.
He says “assume industries where unions have gained strongholds have ended up as failed industries” (paraphrasing). Then he says this implies that no model of industry has succeeded without labor exploitation. That doesn’t follow strictly from the original premise so it must have an implicit assumption built in which is that non-union labor is exploitative.

Maybe I’m being stupid but I don’t see how else this works out. Can you expand to help me understand what I’m missing?
When saying "this is engineering" the article refers to all the engineering effort at the OS level that went into making this possible.

As the title says, this is dumb code. But it makes use of years of engineering effort to deliver a result which can get you very far without thinking about the low level.
Very unfortunate. Besides its main purpose, Keybase has been my chat app of choice for quite a while, after I decided I could no longer put up with Signal's general crappiness.

Keybase has been one of the very few performant and usable "new-style" applications that I've used -and the only one of its kind.

Sadly I am forced to suffer electron-based vomit every day -between Skype, Teams, Whatsapp, Hangouts, Facebook messenger and whatever else I might be fortunate enough to be forgetting. It sucks that I might have to be on the lookout for a decent encrypted chat application that I don't actually hate, again.

Not sure why the use-case of chat communications has been afflicted by so much crappiness -as if it's a curse.
Large study in Kenya currently going on https://www.givedirectly.org/research-at-give-directly/
If they don't have anything in common, yes. If you have one collection helper method, one time helper method and one auth helper method, far better to put those in a collection class, a time class and an auth class than bundle them up as a "utils" class.
Hmm, if we use €0.19/Wp as the price, US$1.08/€ as the exchange rate, and 30% as the capacity factor (I'm assuming it's a bit sunnier than Arizona, which has a 25% average capacity factor for utility-scale solar), the payback time is only 3.7 years. That seems like a pretty profitable investment even despite the subsidized electrical rate.

To be concrete, a 200-watt solar panel should cost about US$41, and produce on average 60 watts: 0.06 kWh/h, which is US$0.00126 per hour, US$0.03 per day, US$0.92 per month, US$11 per year. So in a bit less than four years, it pays for itself, unless the subsidized price of power drops by then or someone steals the panel. If we include a motor scooter battery and cigarette-lighter inverter so you can plug regular appliances into it, even at night, the payback time jumps up to maybe ten years.

Maybe you're mostly saying that US$41 or US$100 is a lot of money to invest up front, or maybe the problem is (as it is here in Argentina) that panel prices are wildly inflated by corruption.
I like and trust the EFF, but that's not my lived experience, and so I don't believe the stats say what the EFF claims they mean.

1) My patent lawyer, following Alice, told us to not even try for most patents we were previously considering, because patents like that would just get rejected. I'd believe acceptance rates have gone up, but that's because people aren't filing as many frivolous patents.

2) The back-and-forth process with the patent office the EFF advocates for is a really bad idea and bad deal. Big companies can hire specialists who do this. For individual inventors, the costs here get astronomical.

Now, the bar for patents is still way too low. But Alice did bring it up. If I had my druthers:

* The bar for patents would be high.

* The processes for applying for patents would be straightforward, quick, and easy.

There would be an appeals process, but it'd look much more like sending a plain-language letter than one couched in byzantine process and baroque terminology.
Well I don't - maybe you do. I think more along the lines of "ingenuity" as described here: https://interestingengineering.com/the-origin-of-the-word-en...
New Zealand eliminates Covid-19
I think what you're looking for is TRAMP [0,1]. After resisting it and continuing to ssh into remote hosts in a shell, I finally started to switch my workflows over, and the improvement is substantial. Async remote compiling might work out of the box in some cases, or it might require some additional configuration.

0. https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/
1. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
Google Launches Nest WiFi: Get Better Internet Speeds at Home
I bought an X1 carbon about a year ago and it has been an absolute nightmare for me. It's true that the keyboard is nice, the display is good etc. basically it is perfect on paper, but I have had so many issues caused by bad firmware from Lenovo (thunderbolt/HDMI failures, bluescreens). I've had the mainboard replaced 5 times, the trackpad replaced twice, and I am currently using a laptop with a trackpad I am not happy with and speakers that are broken and I'm genuinely afraid to let lenovo touch it again because it always comes back with some new issue. If you use the physical trackpad buttons to click, it causes the pointer to stop dead for a second or more, which means no drag and drop, no text selecting etc. Not a massive issue, but I bought the laptop partly for the good inputs, and now it is no different to any other laptop with no physical click buttons because I can't really use them the way I like. I'm lifelong windows/linux, so really don't want to go mac if I can avoid it, but it just doesn't seem like there is a single windows laptop manufacturer that focuses on quality or reliability. most surveys I see put the failure rates at double mac level.
For what it's worth, apparently a new XPS 15 and XPS 17 are being announced this month or next, with basically no bezels, and hopefully Ryzen 4000.
There's no obfuscation that I could see on the Android app, which should help with this. Certainly when looking across to the source release, it was a familiar codebase (modulo the fact the reversed version was in pseudo-java, and the original codebase is in Kotlin).
Sorry, in my mind I combine the US and Canada since much of the planning coverage is in the same news outlets (e.g. streetsblog). For what its worth Canada seems to have many of the same planning and development issues the US has struggled with for the past decades.
Ah I see, I assumed it was a okteto managed cluster. I should rtfm more =)

Splitting parts of an env is against our principles tho, put everything together and test against real endpoints where possible, there is no api dev env or web or app, there is just a dev env.
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7zip doesn't use LZF. LZF is mandated by the file format I'm working with.
> Your editor wants to add track changes and inline comments to your manuscript draft. How do they do that in your org-mode file?

https://orgmode.org/manual/Comment-Lines.html

> You're writing a novel, and it has extensive research notes, background material, and miscellany you're keeping track of.

https://orgmode.org/manual/Tags.html

https://orgmode.org/manual/Internal-Links.html

https://orgmode.org/manual/External-Links.html

https://orgmode.org/manual/Handling-Links.html
I agree that some authors do make the first error you suggest, but the unit and the thing being measured definitely do agree; the first interpretation is just incorrect.
A lack of imagination?
Indeed. AT&T Sys V Rel 4.

https://amigaunix.com/doku.php
macOS Security – So How Do Macs Get Infected with Malware? – SentinelOne
This statistic is very hard to interpret without additional context. If 99% of people stay at home, the of course most people who get infected would have stayed at home. Older people, who are more likely to need hospitalization, are also more likely to stay at home. People who continue to commute to work are likely being more careful, and may also be benefitting from fewer others commuting, which reduces the risks of going outside.

The relevant metric is how many fewer people have caught it due to the lockdown, and assuming the numbers are accurate, it's pretty clear that the lockdown has substantially reduced the infection rate.
Emacs 100% lacks a reasonable sidebar strategy. I use Visual Studio Code's sidebar for 3 things, navigation via search, navigation via changed files, navigation via directory tree. It is very fast to use all of those, even though they are mouse oriented.

The only comparably fast and useful ripgrep that works out of the box in Emacs is swiper, but it uses a temporary buffer. Deadgreap is great but you have to harangue it behave in a similar way to the sidebar in vs code and even then it's just not the same.

The other thing is emacs regexps suck and PCRE is the standard of every well used regexp implementation in the world at this point and emacs ought to find a way to transition to it.