skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
anglo-saxon poetry is also not interested in end-rhymes. The metric stress and alliteration are the repetitive linguistic features that shape those works, which are the direct ancestors of modern english.

Listen! We have heard of the glory of the Spear-Danes

in the old days, the kings of tribes—how noble princes

showed great courage!
The benefit of Amazon, at least in the UK, is they will take a return for basically any reason regardless of whether its been opened or not.
Perhaps the CIA should supply them with crack so they can bargain for their lives.
There's something that I'm not getting in all this: given the R0 for this virus, the situation isn't going to disappear until about 70% of the population has developed immunity.

The purpose of all these isolation and social distancing measures is to slow down the process in order not to overwhelm hospitals. But the news reports I've been reading about hospitals is that in general, in developed countries, the hospitals aren't overwhelmed.

If 70% or so haven't developed immunity, then the pandemic will just re-emerge as soon as the restrictions are lifted. It seems to me that eventually 70% are going to get it. Shouldn't we just let it loose and go through our destined suffering faster?

So why are we making ourselves go through all this? ELI5?
Sounds interesting but it's a little unclear what's running at what layer - it sounds like the JS code from OpenCV.js is now running in webassembly? And how much of OpenCV is still running in native code, e.g. in prebuilt OpenCV libraries?
You managed to get my dog's ears to perk up through my phone. Congrats!
And now for the zip bombs.
Maybe you'll prefer the paper version then: https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas-eboo...
> Intel performance will always be one step ahead of AMD, intel have faster tech in their pocket waiting to be released.

Citation very much needed.

Show me an Intel CPU with PCIe 4.0 or with the performance per watt of the latest AMD Ryzen mobile chips. You can't, because to date they don't exist.

I think if they had anything in reserve it would have been released by now, because AMD is trouncing them in reviews.
This is a frequent topic of discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/

What happens to the economy when a significant portion of society wakes up to the reality of the biosphere collapsing? Will it happen soon or when the oceans are dead or the pollinating insects extinct?
I very much like the keyboard layout that gives more action to thumbs and some rest to pinkies.
I live in the UK and let me say that the US is not the UK. In the UK it's very difficult to get a gun. In the US it looks like guns are everywhere.

I'm all for fewer guns in general, but is it really feasible that cops don't have guns when everyone else has them?
Yes, which is why I said willing & able.
Able in this context means: you have the resources and circumstances to do so. Moreover, you will only resign once you have secured the job.
Everyone's talking about code, but I do this with carpentry. Right now, I'm working as a trim carpenter in residential construction, and I pride myself on doing as good a job as I can. As a result, when I come back to a job to install door hardware after everything is painted, I sometimes just wander around the house and admire my work. Especially tricky details that took a bit of thinking to get right, even if no-one else will ever notice them.
Understandably but that's often because of a feedback loop by their bad behavior. If those troubled neighborhoods collectively saw the cops as actually serving the community (rather than terrorizing it), they would likely be welcomed and safe.
makes sense in this capitalist world... the proof is in the pudding. (keep your blinds on if you want but it is happening)
Then you're doing it wrong. You see, this needs to be done after you already coded the application at least on 2 different versions and the codebase of it it's over 50k lines and at least a year old. Then implementing something fast it blows their mind especially when they have the proverbial carrot in that proverbial place. As for overpaying is not the case since I am paid hourly. I prefer to blow their mind from time to time in order to do repeat business instead to always be "I'll get back to you" and have them feeling that I'm procrastinating.
>The more likely scenario is the market is disconnected with economic conditions,

Also,

1) passive investment represents a much larger fraction of stock holdings than in previous decades.

2) a significant fraction of these passive investments are held in retirement accounts which cannot be easily liquidated.

3) another significant fraction is held by wealthy buy-and-hold investors which may never need to liquidate assets.

For the most part, I think the stock market is going to be stable for quite a while because there's really no viable investment alternatives. It's not like you can go into bonds because yields are basically nothing.

Now, if some rules are passed that allow for 401ks to be liquidated without penalty, then that might be a cause for concern.
I'm not really sure how to break down "evidence-based" any more for you. It's pretty self-explanatory. Virtue signalling refers to actions that indicate you care about a topic (the environment in this case) but without any real commitment to the cause. For example, politicians who want to appear to care for the environment might promote a ban on plastic straws because it generates lots of good publicity, is only most mildly inconvenient, and is transparently negligible with respect to saving the planet ("better than nothing" unless one accounts for the squandered political will).
Well yeah there is a difference between killing another human being in the first person vs indirectly through corporate processes.
Raise my taxes by 10-15% (by increasing the tax rate at the upper brackets) and put that money towards taking care of people who aren't employed. Yes, my plans for buying a second home will be delayed, but I think I'd rather live somewhere where everyone was taken care of.
Seeing you mentioned Tornado, WordPress not being so attractive, and $20 for a 512MB VPS makes me wonder if this was sometimes around 2010-2012? A lot of comments here seems to mention $5/mo VMs, but if this was around that time period, then I don't think $20 is unreasonable at all!

(I used RootBSD back then and they only gave you 256MB for $20 ;-)
Use it every day at work.

I automated the login process to a group of servers and then it automatically saves all interaction to a separate file based on the ip address.
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I've had the joy(?) of working for a company for close to 10 years, moving on to other work for about 5 years, and then returning again.

During my first tour with the company I built, among other things:

- (on a two-person team) an ASP.NET web app that allows payroll admins to extract year-end data from their AP in order to distribute tax forms (W-2s, 1099s, etc.)

- (different two-person team) a mail-room management back-end that allowed us to print/mail over 1 million forms/year for customers of the above

- (yet another two-person team) A corporate intranet product

Since returning to the company I've been on another small team (3 developers) building an independent payroll platform. As part of that effort, we've had to integrate with all the other things I ever built at the company. It's been extremely valuable for our team that I have intimate knowledge of basically all of our integration points across the company. Much of my original comments and code from ~2007-2015 are still in the source tree. Some of that makes me happy, and some of that makes me cringe :)
The good news: we flattened the curve enough that most of these field hospitals weren’t needed.

The bad news: bureaucracy and mismanagement prevented hospitals who did need more space from using them.

The awful news: NY recommended people to stay home from the hospital even if they needed care, probably causing extra deaths and complications.
As a first step, vote blue in November.
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Isn’t just counting the developed world missing the problem though? We also moved all of our manufacturing to the developing world at the same time and they saw a much greater increase.

Shipping stuff around the world and moving your pollution to Asia doesn’t do much good when we all share the same atmosphere.
Sir Robert Peel would be ashamed; this is in clear contradiction to principle 7:

> To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

People keep asking "how do we fix policing in America?!" Maybe start by following common sense guidelines written in 1829 that still apply today.

The Peelian principles are akin to a "Policing Constitution." The closer you get to its ideals the higher quality your policing is, and by that standard US policing even outside of "abuse" falls well short.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
Best feeling I ever got was when I was starting out using list comprehensions and ternaries in Python. I sometimes got the (slightly creepy) feeling I wasn't so much writing this thing myself but using a feather duster carefully to clean away the cobwebs sort of like an archaeologist. That feeling of "discovery" is what I use to guide me. If it's not there, I know there's a better implementation. Got me thinking about Socrates and how discovery could really just be recollection. So my take is a little bit opposite what you are calling for. It's not "I wrote that!" with pride but "I was used to bring that about!".
Yes. I wrote some Rust code about 3 years ago. I've set it aside until the IDE situation improves, and now I look at it to remind me that I wrote that (not too shabby) code because I want to pick up Rust again at some point and if I went by the tone of the articles on HN (Rust is hard, you're constantly fighting the borrow checker, etc) it would be too discouraging.
The police culture in the United States, enabled by these absolutely absurd legal protections, is consistently the most embarrassing thing about our country. We're famous for our police corruption and brutality, to the point that the state departments of foreign countries have to warn their citizens of interactions with police while visiting the US.

The portuguese-american community that I grew up in mostly consisted of people who fled the fascist authoritarianism of Antonio Salazar, with the promise of freedom and prosperity. They found the prosperity just fine, but lived here long enough to see America become even more authoritarian than the Portugal that they fled. It is interesting to me that many of them are leaving the prosperity behind to return to Portugal, as it is now more free than we are.
Reference counting happens at runtime, this happens at compile time.
If you feel attacked by that comment, it may say more about you than the comment itself.

Socialism and authoritarianism are very linked. They're not the same, and you can have a socialist society that isn't authoritarian, but many socialist countries are centrally authoritarian and that's held true historically.
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You can share the progress of current work. Milestones achieved etc. What's missing, what are the next steps, schedule. Etc.Etc. He probably don't know that you are making good progress towards goals sets. Be more transparent.
You lost me at "sprint."

I'm a marathon runner worried about a goal way down the road, not running 100m after 100m after 100m until I essenrially sprint a marathon (~42km) and die somewhere in the process.

To bring this silly neverending business analogy full circle, there's a reason people run quite differently in actual sprints and marathons. If you treat a marathon like a sprint, you're going to tire out early and fall behind. It's all about steady paces, small breaks, and occasionally picking up the pace to push yourself when needed.

You can set some runners up in a marathon, then lie and setup posts every 100m and tell them they just need to sprint to the first 100m and then "we'll treat this like a real marathon." After they get to 100m you can shout, oh shoot we need to catchup, and sprint to the 200m mark. Continue this perpetually until your runner basically exhausts and dies out and just says "I quit this race."

Thats basically what most businesses do, create perpetual sprints that are completely unsustainable. Businesses have the flexibility that in their race, if the runner grows tired of their terrible coach angsting them on, they can just sub out a new fresh naive runner mid-marathon and start the full cycle all over again.

Let's stop encouraging businesses that sprinting marathons is an acceptable practice... let's run marathons like--marathons.
Interesting - it looks like they've gone down the route of having a way for people to do a "digital handshake" (both press the button, and have devices within a short distance of each other) to create their contact pairings.

I do wonder how many people will use this feature, or remember to use it. This would seem to reduce false positives, but make it much less useful at scale (i.e. it won't help trace people who were on a train or bus).
No. Political will is the only way out. Technology alone is not going to help when politics is geared to subsidize dirty fuel, permit polluting industry and avoid economic interventions that would help, like carbon taxes.
Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs
I've always loved seeing recursive functions I wrote in the past. The amount of power and elegance that can come from a good recursive function is my favorite.
So France became socialist because they did the most generous handouts to companies?
With the biggest incarceration rate, greatest executions in all the west, and biggest number of cops who kill people, it's amazing how ideas like being the "land of the free" stick to the populace...
There is also the drug addict reaction where more bad news means more QE coming means markets up rather than down.
`useberrypr` Lol. If you're going to self-promote at least be subtle about it.
All in all, COVID19 is just about the one thing that's not a safety concern in a chip-fabbing cleanroom. Hydrofluoric acid is somewhat harder to deal with though, so I'm not at all sure that 'deprioritizing' workplace safety is the right approach.
Oh I completely agree that it's a bad measure. I'm not looking for a justification, I'm curious for an explanation of why management might be incentivized to act this way. If theres a business case for it it's fairly easy to rationalize as a manager why you have a moral responsibility to put employees at risk (the economy is running in WFH powered by our CPUs! They need us!). Especially if they're in for a nice bonus if sales spike in higher demand. I'm more curious if there's even a business case to be made which might explain (but not necessarily justify) reckless behavior.
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Isn’t that just a variant on organizing your globals well to make using lots of globals manageable?

That’s what historically was done in languages such as FORTRAN and COBOL (both of which had compile-time memory management, but managed to do that by completely dropping memory allocation at runtime)

And yes, that meant dropping all dynamic memory allocation, too. If your wanted to run your FORTRAN program on a larger data set, you replaced the cards defining the dimensions of your arrays and recompiled.
This is really interesting; I wasn't aware. That said, "per capita" is the wrong metric since we're discussing humanity in aggregate. I might still be wrong about energy in general, however. In any case, I think the broader principle holds.
I feel like the bevy of comments changing the topic to American tech/media companies every time the main parent post is China-centric is predictable and exhausting. It's rarely a new or interesting take, and mostly just derails the conversation on the original thread.
In most of Europe police carry guns,yet lethal encounters with members of public are rare( not saying they don't happen at all though). It's not just guns but the attitude of policemen. In Britain,police tend to talk to you for how long it takes until you come back to senses.If that doesn't help they do handle you.If they think you have guns, they'd send those who know how and will shoot if necessary. A stressed and confused guy in a hospital setting with no gun/knife is a low risk and should be talked to for beginners. They somewhat overreact there quite often.
Easy, because nobody has written a Vulkan backend yet.
I would expect those emulators would be happy about patches for that.
Even before this, cops in the klan have been murdering minorities with impunity for a long time. This is what fascism looks like, no accountability for state-sponsored murder of innocents.

If anyone is interested in American history: Before we had our modern police departments, our earliest systems of law enforcement were actually slave patrols and organizations called Indian Constables. These institutions are rooted in controlling the behaviors of minorities. If you know your history, you know that slavery and colonization never really ended. The 13th amendment, world-leading prison labor system, and border camps are part of this living legacy.

You can read more here:

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-a...
This is great news! "Shelter in place" orders flattened the curve as was predicted and as we hoped. We were ready (mostly) for the worst case, and people complying with these orders meant we never hit it.

Next up, I hope we don't end up needing these field hospitals because of states re-opening things too soon.
I call it magic language because it had nothing to with the novelty of the inventions. Note, Alice wasn't the first time this was required. We always adjust the language we use in applications as new case law comes down.

Further, gibberish included in claims to defend against Alice rejections usually had nothing do with novelty because Alice was about subject matter patentability not novelty.

Before the early Alice guidance came out we tried a lot of different things, much of it superficial in my opinion. Including: emphasizing that the machine did the work; showing that inputs are being transformed into something new by the machine; writing claims that show different parts of the system interacting with each other; and sometimes nonsense like "wherein each foobar is stored in a hardware memory" or "displaying the bizbaz on a hardware display."

In some hard cases (mainly apps drafted before there was any Alice guidance or useful case law) we included claim limitations like "modifying performance rates based one or more sensor inputs" (e.g., CPU temperature)

Later, when the first case in district court found that a patent satisfied Alice, we started including language verbatim from that case in specs, claims, and office action responses whenever possible.

As more guidance memos came out, we included relevant language from those as well.

Sometimes this resulted in claims that had a lot of words that were unrelated to the novelty of the inventions. By this I mean, we included limitations that would be present in every computer program/system by default. Storing things, displaying things, two or more processes or machines interacting or exchanging data, receiving inputs from sensors, transforming data from one shape to another, and so on.

The specifics could vary for each patent application because art units or sometimes examiners were using different standards before reasonable guidance started coming out.

Some patent attorneys focused more on arguing with examiners and appealing Alice rejections. We don't like to argue with examiners, so we typically keep amending claims until they are satisfied. And, then file continuations with broader claims that omit the amendments that didn't work. This type of practice requires high budget applications and may not be practical for everyone.

But generally we always could get over Alice using these techniques.
Technology makes cleaner solutions cheaper, rendering all that irrelevant.
The risk of re-opening means there will no longer be cover for unemployment benefits. But since the pandemic is still happening, demand won't recover fast enough to put all these people back to work, and the furloughs become permanent layoffs.
No, the virus doesn't just float around in the air, at least, not for any appreciable amount of time. It's much more likely that people in these apartments are touching the same elevator buttons and then wiping their eyes and contracting the virus.
You would think the (ex)VP from amazon could get a decent website together that is legible on a mobile device... He must have been the one keeping the archaic layout on the amazon website from the early 2000s.
> "Well, if you've already done it, then it should be easy to do it again!"

The teachers in my son's school (6-12 year olds) solve this by either giving them more difficult exercises, or letting them help the kids that don't grasp it yet.

The latter is really interesting because helping others is a lesson on its own.
People like to classify things. They like having neat buckets to place things in, give them a name, make them feel like they have a handle on it.

The world is not easily classified. But people persist. So we end up with situations like "is Pluto a planet?" and "is a virus alive?" Then people start focusing on their classifications and definitions when in fact they don't actually matter to the reality of the situation.

I need to dumb this down more if the audience is a 5 year old.

People like to give things names. Like the colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. But sometimes a color can't be easily named.

For example the shirt I'm wearing might look blue to me and green to you. Then we start arguing about what color the shirt is when what we really should talk about is if it matches my pants.
Good list, thank you!
I can't speak to websites, but I can speak to community discords that have 10,000+ users where hate speech prevention is the reason that you have to provide proof of identity.
8 cores times 4 SIMD lanes is a 32× speedup; that's where "97%" comes from, as explained in the note I linked to.

It's pretty variable: some things we haven't figured out how to speed up with SIMD, sometimes we have a GPU, sometimes we can get 8 or 16 SIMD lanes out of SSE3 or AVX128 or 32 of them out of AVX256, sometimes you only have four cores, sometimes make -j is enough parallelism to win you back the 8× factor from the cores (though not SIMD and GPGPU). But I think 97% is a good ballpark estimate in general.
Infocom sold derivative works of this, so its seems to me that they would have some rights to this code.

If it was some sort of non-exclusive license, there should be no problem, because the authors seem to be on board with the release.

If the authors transferred their copyright to Infocom upon forming the company, then this code is technically no longer theirs to give away, especially since the IP rights were subsequently re-sold (maybe even multiple times).

I agree with others in this discussion that at this point, the code most likely has primarily academic/historical value. But that would not necessarily stop an owner from suing a deep pocketed entity like MIT.
No one should be depending on an internet connection or external server to keep people alive and there is no way amazon would somehow be responsible for a nonsense design like this, if it ever did happen.
The words "by wearing that badge, they're the chosen whites" [0] keep going through my head. It disgusts me that the cop who is also a pastor has no problem with their conduct.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGV1xYJFAEI