skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that move, the goal would have been to put Dow out of business. If it is a few cents lower, Dow can also go a bit lower. Putting the competition out of business needs them to put it so low that the other party has to run up huge loses or no sales at all.
That's right, and there was a brief controversy here when the Director General and the Prime Minister said that NZ had eliminated COVID and that was taken by most people to mean that it no longer existed here. They later had to backtrack somewhat and explain the difference.

Basically elimination means that the disease is totally under control, and any new cases can be dealt with via testing and tracing. Eradication means that the disease is completely wiped out and no longer exists here.
Very good example of "kill your darlings" when it comes to removing slick animations in favor of straightforward, no non-sense, zero latency feedback for the user. I suppose there is some deep down desire to implement these things that first must be realized, only to be quelled before it's shipped.
It seems like doubling down is the standard thing to do. Here's a video about how Instagram bugs engineers to do fewer string manipulations in Python instead of using a faster language https://youtu.be/hnpzNAPiC0E
Neither side is necessarily wrong here but we changed the law to address the problems you describe.

I see this as similar to the payday lending debate. Payday lenders aren’t creating demand, they are responding to it. What happens when we eradicate that form of lending? Most things start from good intentions.
Thoughts on Financial Inclusion
What happens when the woke takeover of the SFS is finally complete and emacs is re-licensed under a new social justice license where you can only use it if you don't oppress minorities?

I don't trust the FSF further than I can throw them and I don't trust them with my copyrights.
If they're truly serious about this long term I guess a drastic shift away from the tourism industry which happens to be gigantic in New Zealand.

It's honestly difficult to see how this is sustainable.
This flow chart is awesome! I'm not sure I agree on the order of all of the steps. For example you may want to put section 3 before section 2. Also, it looks like this is recommending saving for a downpayment on a house before maxing out your 401k. It makes sense but I'm not sure it is one size fits all.
What are you doing that needs such a wide CPU and beefy GPU? That's a real narrow niche between GPU-heavy gaming laptops, and cheaper many-cored desktops.

I would love a 4900 with no dGPU, myself. (wide-CPU compile workloads) The iGPU in these is plenty for my portable needs, especially at 1440p.

Ideally we'd have good external GPU support, so we choose to hook it up to a real heavy-hitter.
We're in the middle of a similar transition, except that we were using the realtime features of firebase (but we needed better querying).

We've found that Hasura offers us the best of both worlds. It doesn't actually store any data itself, it's "just" an API layer on top of postgres. So we can do most things with bog-standard SQL-backed REST APIs, and with a couple of clicks to set up relations and permissions in Hasura we also access any of that same data through realtime-capable GraphQL api.
> That means startup performance.

Or the server/client setup could just be the default and the server starts at system boot.
The problem is there are so many stupid chat clients that are actually giant piggy web browsers. :-D
> California not only has faced up to the 21st-century challenges, but it’s begun to seriously adapt to them.

I would disagree with this point with one particular exception. Most coastal communities keep pushing the eroding cliffs problem down the road. At-risk property values will likely plunge, and these beachfront properties tend to be among the most expensive.

Managed retreat options are not popular with voters in coastal communities.
Do you have a reference for this? Were they confirmed to be sending the info to the server? I would note that it wouldn't be uncommon for a program like zoom to have the relevant api calls in it to allow the user share a specific app with the conference call.
Have a normal life within the country, and possibly also a trans-tasman bubble including Australia and perhaps the Pacific Islands, assuming they can keep it under control too. Anyone not coming from those areas has mandatory 2 week managed quarantine. Then wait for a vaccine.
> Signal has publicly threatened to shutter their US operations if EARN IT passes, so id say its relatively resilient.

So if every country passes something like EARN IT, Signal shuts down, how is that resilient?
NZer, never seen it before
Not being able to see the contents, customers probably assumed there was something more valuable in there than promotional items. I doubt many of them bought more than one grab bag.

I think Diamond (the distributor) frowns on stores selling items that were meant to be given away for free. To be honest, the owner doesn’t sound like the most reputable guy.
No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X (2018)
> and generally more stable

People say this yet still use Adobe software on macOS over windows. Despite the fact adobe software runs horribly on macOS compared to windows.

If you buy a Mac for using adobe software you’re definitely not buying it for workflow.
Why would they?

Look at gun violence. That’s someone that’s entirely of the US’ failing, but at levels that matter no one cares that thousands die because of inept government.
i don't think a "smart city" is the answer either, but it's worth pointing out that the quayside project was not a smart city by any definition of the word city, it was a 4.9ha parcel (~7 standard city blocks) in a much larger city - possibly the perfect canvas for some experimentation.
That article from Slate Star Codex is a miracle. Stars aligned and Scott peaked.

And here it is read by Jeremiah:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/sscpodcast/Meditations_on_Moloch.m...
> It feels like a laptop from the future

I've been using Thinkpads for close to 20 years now, and it's more correct to say that their greatness comes from feeling like a laptop from the past: excellent ergonomics, upgradability, durability, ports. Indeed, my current machine (X230, 2012 model) already inspired some criticism for deviating from the IBM-style keyboard of its predecessors. Newer models like the X280 have even more complaints arising from the unswappable battery, soldered RAM, and lack of Ethernet port. Lenovo apparently faces the same thinness-over-usability marketing focus that afflicts all electronics today.
True. But how much did the productive output of the average American increase? Can we really expect things to "always increase" -- including wages? To me this seems like an absurd idea.

The end goal should be improving the median quality of life, through improving the efficiency of factors of production -- lower cost of goods... not through the expectation that the wages should arbitrarily grow linearly with GDP.
One of my few regrets in life is that I never bought the family a Neiman Marcus Kitchen Computer.

https://www.google.com/search?q=neiman+marcus+kitchen+comput...
For new projects (especially as a solo developer), there's also a related topic of not taking advantage of tools like kanban boards, or having a place outside of your source code to organize your thoughts and research.

It's very possible to wind up with massive comment dumps of things to research, alternate implementations, notes to yourself and other things littered in your code base where you haven't made any git commits yet.

This really leaves things in a messy state where you feel like the project is never going to be finished.

An example of this and how I solved this problem with a kanban board can be found here: https://youtu.be/HHOkcCqsipE?t=76
Good point. The solution is obviously going to be context-specific. I suspect in our hypothetical order scenario that the order fulfillment system could get away with not validating the product being ordered.

Of course it would still need a way of capturing the identity of that product. I would guess that the best way to handle that would be to pass a URN or URI for the product. That would still decouple it somewhat from the product catalog system.

In general for these kinds of integrations, you're probably better off avoiding passing around system specific IDs. Pass data instead of IDs (pass the geocordinates or standardized address for a customers delivery address rather than the customer ID). If you have to pass around IDs, then URIs allow for greater decoupling.
> did not feel like mistakes so much as an expression of their values

That's an intepretation you're choosing to make.
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...if only all the other countries had had the foresight to be a small island before the coronavirus pandemic hit...
>We cannot just throw up our hands and say "oh well, we'll get 'em next time."

But we will
Going viral: how to boost the spread of coronavirus science on social media
Reminds me of the Google situation with Reader.
> They used to be better than this.

Did they? I've been a member for 20 years and I don't remember it ever being different.

They've always been a pro-technology anti-patent lobbying machine. All of their materials are biased this way.

I don't agree with everything they lobby for, and I tell them that when I renew each year. I know a few of the folks there, and from what I hear, they take that into consideration when they discuss budgeting.

But I'm pretty sure they've always been like this.
Stuff like this worked great until someone tries to DDoS you, or found some buffer overflow which took over the box. I dont like the new world either but it was built this way for a reason.
The users would have specific keys trusted.
you can, but big tech had big tech money.

Unless you've got a few billion to throw away you're going to have a hard time convincing any developers to build something other than the most economically productive building. and for that location, that's a big glass condo building that looks like every other big glass condo building and doesn't benefit anybody other than the people who can afford to live in big glass condo buildings.
Trump and his government is already rewriting the narrative by peddling multiple inter-working conspiracies about covid-19 to deflect attention:

* If only China had provided the world with accurate data about covid-19 the US wouldn't be in this mess.

* Covid-19 was developed by the Wuhan research lab.

* China developed covid-19 as a weapon against the US.

* China is responsible for the tens of thousands of deaths in the US.
The good news:
The video was awesome. It got their attention, it was easy to follow, and I could also see what needed to happen after.

The bad news:
I did a bad job pitching it. In retrospect I should have waited until they were bored. What I did was excitedly show it to them even though they were hoping to do other things.

D'oh!!!!!!

I might give it another shot, but I think I missed the window :(
Thanks, that's helpful. When was the last time you used Matrix/Riot?
This article is just missing two pictures to tell the story.

Rejection rates immediately after Alice (2014): https://imgur.com/veW7vQ7

Rejection rates immediately after new Patent Office guidance (2019!): https://imgur.com/ylqD5sx

Apparently patent applicants were entirely unable to to adjust their applications in line with the decision for a whole 5 years where rejection rates were consistently >30% (and rising!). Then, immediately after new guidance, they all "get it" and rejection rates drop below 20%?

Remember, guidance is just a summary of applicable law and precedent. It is training material. If there is a significant change in rejection rates, it means Alice was somehow misapplied for 5 years and no one ever meaningfully contested it.
The images are so small it's hard to even tell what he is writing about. If you're going to write 1,200 words on your new table design that is only subtlety different to your old table design, maybe show said design at 100% of the size when you click on one of the images.
I don't see how, I would say most of the decisions that were made in the US are. Cities in the US are not "vibrant" compared to Europe.

I think cars are mostly to blame, roads are so large, no pedestrian-only streets, parkings take so much space, etc.
It is, but usually only to the extent of "spend less than you make" and "save X% of your income," where X is significantly less than 50%. Only until you get to the FIRE community do you see people start talking about 50-60+% savings rates.
Most States That Are Reopening Fail to Meet White House Guidelines
In the article he implies these are people who are not working, not commuting, and not travelling. Here are some quotes from the article:

"He said the information shows that those who are hospitalized are predominantly from the downstate area in or around New York City, are not working or traveling and are not essential employees. He also said a majority of the cases in New York City are minorities, with nearly half being African American or Hispanic."

"Cuomo said nearly 84% of the hospitalized cases were people who were not commuting to work through car services, personal cars, public transit or walking. He said a majority of those people were either retired or unemployed. Overall, some 73% of the admissions were people over age 51."
Let, const, and var are WEIRD in JavaScript
> "Imagine, for Thanksgiving, you go to your parents' for dinner and after a nice dinner they say, 'That's going to be $10 per person,' " Simonsohn says. "You would be upset."

LOL, my first ex-wife's mother would charge $40/person for hosting the mandatory Thanksgiving dinner, after people also contributed in the way of co-ordinated sides, fixings, beverages.

By the way, $40/person in the 90's.

And no she was not poor, and nobody in the family was flush with cash.
> This was avoidable. Tens of thousands of deaths were avoidable.

This is not really accurate. Also, looking at NZ is misleading -- they're a waterlocked island with fairly restrictive travel even prior to COVID-19. It would have been very difficult to contain something as contagious as COVID-19 even with better leadership from the WHO, US, China, Trump, Obama (insert whomever you blame the most). In fact, there may be some evidence that it was spreading in France as early as December 2019.
Long running network servers, such as most IRC servers, were written using select. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_C...
So, unless I've missed it in the comments here, what are the alternatives? Where are people putting their keys?
A test was done in San Diego with the concept of putting magnets in the road for self driving cars. I never thought it was practical due to cost.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-06-28-mn-19436-...
Do they? I certainly don't behave that way. Fares are definitely something I factor in heavily, but a $10 difference isn't something I consider significant.

Long before that point, I start looking at other factors like departure and arrival times and whether I like the airline.

For example, I just did a quick search, and for $25 more total round trip, I can get nonstop flights both ways. I didn't specify nonstop as a search filter (since there are few nonstop flights between these two cities), but now that I know it's only $25 more, I'd pick that.
> https://www.wired.com/2012/04/space-humans-vs-robots/

> If space exploration continues to focus on sending robots to other planets, "we will learn less about the solar system in the next 100 years than we will if we engage in an ambitious program of human exploration,"

In other words, sending humans could be more efficient use of funds. This is an old topic which was rehashed many times; some conclude that robot's advantage here is not real.
Those artificially low lending standards merely enabled loans that shouldn't exist.
High functioning teams with sustained value creation don't need deadlines. They're not working on one thing; they're working on many things. There's nothing to "adjust" by imposing a deadline. You can reprioritize, but the date is just noise.
It's important to note that the term "eliminated" does not mean that we have no cases of Covid-19. The govt uses terms like "eliminated" and "eradicated" to mean different things with subtle differences, so they can be used to measure progress. From the article (in case you didn't read) "Elimination to everyone means that it is gone. But in epidemiological terms, it means bringing cases down to zero or near zero in a geographical location"
The hardware is lovely, but the quality of the hardware support service is not what it used to be.

I recently had to get service for my current generation X1 Carbon.

Completely understandably, Lenovo are not currently able to provide on-site support at residential addresses. However, right now the best case for a depot repair appears to be around 3 1/2 weeks. Call center staff say that they have been prohibited from giving any kind of a timeline for a repair or even an escalation call-back by management.

Lenovo says this is due to Covid, but friends of mine (And a very chatty call center rep) report that it began in January when they moved their primary repair operation from Tennessee to Texas.
Aside from the Eight Megs... I also recall:

* Eventually Mallocs All Computer Storage

* Emacs Makes A Computer Slow
I missed that on the first read, and you reminded me on the concept called typoglycemia, which I did noy know until just now was actually an urban legend meme that apparently is true enough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
I have both. X1 keyboard hands down any day... ANY DAY. I love the keyboard so much I’ll now never buy any other laptop brand.

I also like the look and feel more and it’s always easier to upgrade Lenovo.
Video shows Hayabusa2 pogo-bouncing off asteroid
Well, actually, given the end to end encryption in Matrix, nothing is stopping users from completely replacing Signal with a Matrix client which acts exactly like it.
> management is right to ask for estimates.

True, but there needs to be common understanding that they are estimates, and if the projects take consistently longer, it means the dev is bad at estimating, not bad at writing software[0]. Also, if you get a median time, you'll have, by definition, half the projects taking longer than that; a mean, mode, or 90th estimate will still have plenty of high points; and if you want 100th percentile, you don't even need to ask the developer: "sometime in the next century, probably".

0: They can be that, too, but that's a independent flaw from being bad at estimating.
Mostly managers who hold very low opinions of developers and think they’re useless if you don’t yell “boo!” at them with some frequency.
How much of your taxes would you be willing to spend to get people to stop working?

Let’s say in telemarketing? I get quite a few unsolicited calls, would gladly spend some money to not have to have them.

Or in tobacco perhaps. N or sure how much of my taxes are spent on managing the fallout from that industry, but I’m pretty sure I‘d rather spend them on keeping people from working in it.
Our geography definitely helps, but it would still have been possible for the govt to screw up the approach.
I immediately thought of company perks as another good example of this.

I can remember when my company was trying to spend less, so they took away an employee perk. Now this employee perk was kind of ridiculous (no other company paid for it) and it wasn't that popular (a few people used it).

However, when they took it away? Holy crap were people pissed.

This is one of the big lessons for me early in my career. Before you do something, ask yourself if you're prepared to do it forever. Sometimes it doesn't matter, but sometimes it does and you'll be better off if you never do it in the first place versus doing it and then taking it away.
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I didn't see the article as disagreeing with the headline. I thought the headline was using "eliminated" in the epidemiological sense:
"Elimination to everyone means that it is gone. But in epidemiological terms, it means bringing cases down to zero or near zero in a geographical location."
Any idea to when it might be fixed? I still can't verify any devices and using the Use Recovery Passphrase or Key method still responds with nothing.

If the whole premise of matrix is encrypted chat, and I can't verify myself, I'm hesitant in using the app. Luckily I am only using it to talk to a single friend so it's not a too big deal at the moment.
> Plus, I don't think that anyone has built an autonomous robot for zero-g yet (I'm not counting satellites and Canada-arm).

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15981250/japan-space-came...

"Japan’s space agency has for the first time released photos and videos taken on the International Space Station by its resident robot drone..."
> Vim might be hard, but [...] it makes much more sense than Emacs.

Counter-point: I think emacs makes much more sense. If you start it, you can navigate a file by clicking in places. It is a GUI application, whereas I think vim is just a terminal program by default?

Emacs has a little built in tutorial (Ctrl+h t) and is quite discoverable (type Ctrl+h ? and it shows you a lot of commands you can use to find out about what functions a chord invokes or how to invoke a function with a key cord). With helm you just type a part of a function and it gives you a list of suggestions.

Within programming languages I think auto-completion is a must-have for discoverability. Otherwise I have to constantly look up stuff in the documentation. And for that company-mode is really nice, I don't know about the vim side of it but I think something like that goes against the philosophy of vim as I understand it?

To me, modal editing didn't make much sense in the beginning and for emacs the learning curve seemed less steep, so that's what I went with in the end. But clearly it must be good somehow, because so many people use and love vim! It's just not for me I guess.
This is covered in the article, and I posted this comment above:

It's important to note that the term "eliminated" does not mean that we have no cases of Covid-19. The govt uses terms like "eliminated" and "eradicated" to mean different things with subtle differences, so they can be used to measure progress. From the article (in case you didn't read) "Elimination to everyone means that it is gone. But in epidemiological terms, it means bringing cases down to zero or near zero in a geographical location"
IRC servers were indeed written using select(2), because interaction between the clients is the whole point of IRC; that gets a great deal more difficult if you spawn off a separate process for each client! I think ICB/FNet predates IRC slightly and was also written using select(2). But IRC wasn't written until 1988, at which point select(2) and inetd were already about ten years old, and things like (most) FTP servers continued to run one process per concurrent client throughout the 1990s. (Walnut Creek CDROM wrote their own high-performance event-driven FTP server, IIRC.) Typically on the machine where you were running the IRC server you would also be running about a dozen or two other servers from inetd, all written with the one-process-per-client model.

If there was a time when all network servers were written using select(2) or similar event-driven APIs, it wasn't 1988 or later.
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