skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lest other people get the wrong impression from someone who's admitted not even trying it, running Clang's static analyzer is as simple as switching cc with scan-build. You can even drive it from clang-tidy. No Perl or Python setup in my experience.
That.was.not.the.thinkpad.line.

Please, ffs, learn the difference.
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Can someone clearly explain the actual privacy risks of the centralised model (that UK Govt is pursuing) over the decentralised model?

My understanding is that in reporting our unique identifiers (and location data?) to the govt servers, this data could be de-anonymised and misused. But what data is actually being reported and how could it be misused?
The web is full of complaints about System76. And the, they have really cheap parts compared to Thinkpads.
Overall I think you'd still be faster in keyboard, but gestures and such offer a lot in terms of simplicity which is a fair trade a lot of the time. If your workflow revolves around typing however, I would still put trackpoint above.
No no, thank YOU for "refuting" my "refutation"! I do stand corrected, I did not internalize your "total antibody-based immunity will last a few years" sentance, and was focused on the following "memory B cell / T cell based immunity is likely lifelong".
They're required to pay a fixed interest rate on the debt. So during an economic downturn when profits dip, they can become insolvent. By comparison, when the capital came from stock, the dividends could adjust up and down with their profits.

Like any form of leverage, it magnifies both the upside and downside risks.
Before sneering at journalists you may want to double-check that you're not the confused one. That sentence is exactly correct.
Right. Totally forgot. They are just filed under "Britcom" in my system.
affordable housing is a pretty loaded phrase at this point. In fact it has come to just mean government-subsidized housing. So by that definition you are probably correct, people aren't often moving from housing projects to brand new condos. Nobody is saying that they do.

luxury condos is also a loaded phrase. In an expensive city, all housing is expensive, even if it is 50 years old and used to house working class people. So-called "luxury housing" is just regular-sized new apartments, with a few thousand dollars of added perks like sleek recessed lighting and upgraded appliances to help sell it.

If you take out those loaded phrases, people are absolutely moving from existing, mid-tier market rate housing into only slighty more expensive new construction market rate housing. The more new construction housing you build, the more supply you have, and the more prices come down. Which allows market-rate housing to become affordable to more of the population. That was the case 10-15 years ago, and could be true again in the future if we just let people build enough housing to match the incoming demand of new residents moving into cities.
I'm not a fan of private equity but I'm also not a fan of rants directed my way when I'm answering a question someone asked. Please take this somewhere else.
The evidence from this trial is that people who received UBI did not treat it as a vacation. Indeed, "The employment rate for basic income recipients improved slightly more during this period than for the control group."
https://archive.md/ElkSG
My understanding is that the parent comment isn't talking about Nikes, but brands like Burberry.
How is the driver support for Linux?
You should go to community college if you're in your first two years. You'll cut tuition by 2/3s at least and you'll receive the same level of not great education.
Make sense, since demos are cash and attention grabber. Also, for Zoox, it has been a while since they have gotten legit funding rounds.
They had rootkits on Yoga, Ideapad and other fancy models. Business-oriented laptops did not have rootkits.
Unless this is applied only to the richest 1%, majority won't support UBI. I think that true UBI is something that is given to everyone (even the 1%) and everything else is abolished (unemployment, paid sick leave, pensions and all other social security benefits).
Covid-19 Strike Wave Interactive Map
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18803533
> PHP threads

Still, my understanding is that php-fpm spawns processes, not threads. What is "persistent" is the php-fpm daemon itself that's connected to nginx, but each request spawns a whole process which has to bootstrap your whole framework every time. That's the reason frameworks like symfony run almost mandatorily with something like opcache.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22997245 and requiring gnome-keyring on Linux are issues for me.
Interesting to see from the documentation that it was contracted out to VMWare Pivotal Labs for development.
https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/blob/maste... appears to be looking for Apple devices to wake them back up.
I just looked at the System76 laptops, and they are strikingly similar to the Powerspec(Micro Center)/Sager laptops? Is the resemblance superficial or something else?
> I have to say that such a response appears to be somewhat tone-deaf.

You can self quarantine in a city as well as in a rural area. I think we shouldn't blame urban life for what was botched policy. Taiwan, Singapore, Beijing, they all did just fine.

Short of a zombie apocalypse I'd always rather be in a city and in close proximity to quality care (in particular relevant for the elederly) than somewhere else. After all, other diseases haven't stopped existing. If you are in a rural remote area, if you have a heart attack you're pretty much done for. Not to mention even getting good dental care can be difficult.

Also shifting the mindset in the US is a decades long endeavour, fascination with pastoral or bucolic lifestyles is deeply ingrained.
At least a few years ago, tons of company were afraid of the 'cloud'.

It does change right now.
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>Currently air travel is a completely homogeneous service. There is basically no difference from one company to the other, so it makes no sense not to go with the cheapest

Where are you getting this? Tons of airlines provide varying levels of service/amenities. Only thing that is homogeneous is that you get from A to B.

I think you are onto something there, but you should have phrased it another way.

E.g. I think airlines were caught in a devils agreement with air travel search engines.

They gave them access to their flights, and the search engines had to find the simplest qualities to compare fares on. That usually meant price.

So you have tons of airlines with no clear value proposition differences in a search result, and it leads to the equilibrium being a devastating fight for lowest price.
> It's a misuse of the legal system, and the court shouldn't allow it.

I really don't see how.

They file a case. They present an argument. The other side doesn't. What should the court do? Keep asking the other side to bother to show up? If they did that you could block any claim forever by just not showing up. That's not justice.

Our whole society's legal basis is 'show up and present your case and have it judged'. It's called the 'adversarial system' - look it up.

If it's a genuine debt, and it sounds like it is, then either pay up or argue your case in court.
This article is posted behind a paywall. Lol.
On a different note, I will say it is massively interesting to me that someone who claims to be anti-authoritarian is recommending everyone in society return to work in an orderly fashion to save the economy.

Which side do of that argument do you believe holds authority at the moment?
It makes sense for the pricing to be aligned with what the users perceive as their usage/value. In any other shape, customers can and will adjust their usage or switch to something else.

When you start selling per-seat licenses, everyone is incentivized to reshape usage so that only one seat is needed. That one seat is used by a team member who becomes the internal expert on the service, while everyone else turns to him or her for help
If this is true then that’s a sign that we are measuring the wrong things when we talk about “the economy”. If something is good for the economy but bad for people, then fuck the economy. Find a new way to measure it that better aligned with what is good for people.

It seems quite fitting here that Goodheart’s Law came from an economist.
I agree. I'd bet all the cash in my wallet that this was Zoom doing a talent acquisition, to bring a team of crypto experts on board.
I have a T25 with 32 GB of RAM and there's easily 16 GB too much in it. It's only 4 threads so using 32 GB at least as a programmer is a stretch.

With 16 cores and 32 threads I'm able to use all 32 GB easily. I guess I should run more VMs to really understand where people need 32 GB in a laptop.
the problem is wayland. not linux with X11.
As in market cap? It's 3x more, but Barney's is more legendary in fashion circles. Could also because there is more brand dilution at Neiman Marcus
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A duopoly is hardly better than a monopoly. In fact I argue it is worse, because it gives the illusion of choice, yet there is no real choice.
Heh, yes that would be hilarious, I am not so bold... or at least rude to poor salespeople. I mean I asked a few of my friends.
what screen? i keep reading anything but the basic 1080 nukes battery life? i just cant imagine a laptop in 2020 doing 3 hours after having a mbp retina for the last 5 years which is capable of running all day
Sad to hear but thanks for the info!
Meetup folks can learn a lesion or two from this.
I've had one person use it to find me after a conference, confirm my various online identities (he only had one handle to work with), and contact me securely.

That leadededededed to paying work, so it was important even if it only happened one time.
How Doordash uses aggregations on real-time data
We discovered a lot of cases would be unique, so we do try to evaluate a "best" case when it comes to each move.

Keeping that in mind, if a feature has a shared helper across components within the /Feature folder, we'll have a /Shared folder within to capture these files. At a top level, we would encourage a new /Feature folder since most likely it will have tests or be important enough to merit a folder rather than squishing it into another /Feature folder. We're optimizing for visibility too, so having it's own /Feature folder helps with that.
tl;dr - it is not the default, it is the only one supported by Fedora and RHEL devs so they can focus on hardware support

Good for them I guess, Red Hat have historically done quite a lot in moving Linux forward, funding or employing a lot of the developers solving hard and sometimes 'unsexy' problems.
While it isn't at Rust level, that doesn't stop Google and Microsoft from trying.

"Update on C++ Core Guidelines Lifetime Analysis. Gábor Horváth. CoreHard Spring 2019"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeEjgT4OJ3E
Exorbitant HOA/Condo Association fees and regulations that make renting out a condo unfeasible, or outright banned.
I'm sure that's much of it. But some people just really like free stuff. I used to volunteer at a conference series with a $5k price tag. Many of the attendees were wealthy. But when we put out free stuff on the giveaway table, even stuff they could easily buy, a lot of those rich people were very grabby.
Are you measuring actual performance though or just IPC?

We know Intel has that problem with AVX-512. You can get a lot of throughput per cycle with those instructions but the cost is they cause the processor to run hot and have to downclock. It's possible (and really expected) that the same thing happens to some extent at unusually high IPC. Getting 15% higher IPC doesn't really buy you anything if the processor has to lower its clock speed by 15% to execute that type of code.
Google HQ never seemed to have to much to do with this. It was rather their subsidiary Sidewalk Labs that was going to make it happen. They always struck me as long on "vision" and short on execution.
Seeing this title, I immediately felt this is the best (unintended?) clickbait title of HN today. "What? This must be wrong!". I just had to click, especially that the article is on gnome.org. I thought I really missed something serious.

Turns out, GNOME is not the default desktop environment of Fedora Workstation because the team considers that GNOME is the desktop environment of Fedora Workstation, anything else is not tested / supported.

All right, I missed nothing noteworthy after all.
Or people who answer surveys have more money
There's such thing as poverty trap. You need money to survive so you get a low paying job, you can't afford to quit it so you keep at it, 10 years pass and you're still there. UBI was supposed to short-circuit this. But at least in that particular study we didn't see a lot of it happening - even though 1-2 years should be enough time to change things.
TIL - I think I had mistaken it for that period of time when they were installing Superfish onto consumer machines. Thanks!
Army asked for it, anyway politics are irrelevant to feelings.

Pay was $50 a month, doughnut was 2 cents, that is like 1% paycut.
Nvidia wants to leapfrog AMD and prevent them from getting any bigger
There is no paper. That's a word that implies a certain level of research, expertise and peer review. This is a "document" written up by non-experts, which engages in unfounded speculation with the barest of reasoning. The document even appears to get some basic facts wrong, like the location of the WHCDC lab and the presence (or rather, non-presence) of bats in the lab.

It was deleted ("retraction" isn't even really the right word, because we're not talking about a scientific paper) because it was wild speculation. There was not only no "direct proof," there was no piece of compelling evidence that pointed to a lab leak in the first place.

It's being dismissed by virologists as a conspiracy theory because it's just that: there's no evidence for it, and if you know anything about zoonosis and actual lab methods in virology, it's a wildly implausible hypothesis. It also requires one to believe that some highly respected scientific figures in virology, like Shi Zhengli, are blatantly lying.

It's not being as widely dismissed in the media as it should be, the reason being that a good part of the political class is intent on pushing it. Trump and Pompeo are promoting this theory in order to deflect criticism and turn anger about the US government's disastrous handling of the virus against a foreign enemy.

I've started noticing the phrase "CCP" being used more and more among people who are set on demonizing China. I think it's being used for the shock value, and because it taps into long-standing anti-Red sentiment in the US. I'll say this, though: whatever crimes the Chinese government committed, their handling of CoVID-19 turned out to be incomparably better than the US government's handling of the virus. Trump has now said that the deaths that will be caused by opening up are worth it. The Chinese government didn't passively watch as 70,000 of its citizens (increasing every day) died.
Looking of the pictures, I think I actually meant the Tandberg 2400 - definitely looks closer to what I remember than any of the Nokias. Though I sat in front of one or two older 2115s most of the time and could work with the 2400s only when the boss or someone else with a 2400 wasn't in the office. I'm getting quite some details wrong it seems. The ND competence on HN to proove me wrong here is amazing :)
I'm not able to RTFA due to paywall, but I believe that the Lunar Gateway has already gone by the wayside for the first planned mission in 2024. I wouldn't be surprised if the completion date got pushed back a few more times and then it was canceled.
I find the battery life in Lenovo laptops degrading very quickly, comparing to Apple macbooks. I used X1C 4th gen as well as X1 Extreme extensively, and their batteries are pretty close to dead, only delivering ~1-2 hours of work. At the same time, I'm typing this from a 2016 MBP, which is alive and well, batter is good enough still.

Maybe it's just Linux, which I run on Thinkpads. Overall as a system though, the difference is drastic, not in favour of Lenovo.
It's far easier falling back on tired memes and muscle memory, than rewiring biases.
Techradar on egpu and ultrabook combination for gaming
I've seen that tried, I've never seen it actually work. What I've always seen happen is, they'll ask if X can be worked into the schedule, the devs will say no, it can't. Then the next day, they'll ask if X can be worked into the schedule (usually phrased just a little bit differently than before), and the devs will say no, it can't. Then a week later, they'll ask if X can be worked into the schedule. Then, when the devs say no, it can't, they accuse the devs of pushing back on everything, so the devs finally roll their eyes and agree to X (knowing that it's impossible to deliver because it's not even defined, but who cares because nothing ever happens when you inevitably miss the dates anyway). Then the next day, they ask if Y can be worked into the schedule...
There's a big difference between spending hypothetical dollars and real dollars, no matter how much you ask people to please try really really hard to pretend they're spending real dollars.

It's a recurring element in the recurring "I Tried To Start A SaaS Business And It Crashed And Burned Taking My Will To Live With It" posts on HN... "I asked some people if they'd be willing to buy it and they said yes, were very encouraging, until I asked them to actually buy it."
also the FHD screen has twice the battery life, if you want to make that trade off.
So he will preach about wealth inequality but won't go and give his wealth to the poor, but will instead donate his time and energy telling everyone how other wealthy people should pay more.
Do you think the difference between 1gbps and 10gbps is a similar jump forward, in terms of progress, as the advent of electricity as a replacement for gas?

I understand that the GP's argument is that the effects of a particular technological advancement cannot always be understood at the time of, or before, its introduction. But we aren't talking about gun powder here... We are discussing an incremental change to an already existing technology.

As Asimov explains, the velocity of "progress", specifically in areas we already have come to understand in some way, diminishes with each step forward.
Indeed, fast fashion is one of the most wasteful and polluting industries. It's weird how it gets a pass on that.

As for clothing and shoes that last, Patagonia is pretty good.
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20 year study of an entire region

https://www.wired.com/story/free-money-the-surprising-effect...
Driver support on thinkpads is ( and has always been ) excellent.
I believe Intel had some limitations on their support for the LP-DDR (low power) memory and that's why so many systems had the 16GB limit.

On light road-warrior machine like X1 they likely wanted to maximize the battery life. And supporting many types of memory on same model was not likely an option.
I have heard from multiple friends that their employers banned Zoom after the negative press. And that's quite a few non-tech companies too.
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agreed. i wanted to build something, and set myself a 90 (end of quarter) target. it really focused me on just doing what needed doing. my plan did not survive long, but i kept updating it to focus on what mattered. in the end i hit my abitary date, but i carried on tweaking for another 30 days before i was really happy. so reall a 33% overrun.

so having a date matters, just "dont do something stupid to hit a date"
what i built: https://moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/~hello-world/
I think it’s time for me to read Bryan Burrough’s great book “Barbarians at the Gate” again.
That is what Microsoft and Google are trying to do with C++ Lifetime Profile.

https://herbsutter.com/2018/09/20/lifetime-profile-v1-0-post...

"Update on C++ Core Guidelines Lifetime Analysis. Gábor Horváth. CoreHard Spring 2019"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeEjgT4OJ3E

While it might never be Rust like due to language semantics, it is way better than not having anything.
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Fundamentally, its a cultural issue we have in this country that is somewhat disgusting. Politicians should not be just listening to their voters, or their backers, they should be listening to all their constituents, everyone who lives in the areas they represent, with particular focus to the most vulnerable and not the other way around as what frequently happens. The incentives are completely backward. The interests of those that play the politick game well are prioritized at the cost of the people who need the most assistance from public government.

I'm very supportive of expanded voting and recently LA has made election day into an entire week that you can stroll in and cast your vote (Of course, everyone waited until the last minute and polls wrapped around the block at the very last day you could cast your ballot, but that is beside the point).

Even with vote by mail or other initiatives to get out the vote, this leaves a lot of people without representation in LA. There is the requirement that you have the time to study the issues and become an informed voter, which is a privilege not enjoyed by everyone. There are also a lot of undocumented people paying rent and working jobs in LA. I think these people who are contributing to the local economy should also be represented by the people in charge of the area in which they live their life. They have just as much right to be here as I or any other citizen does.

I think the best way to overcome petty politicking would be to limit the control elected officials have over what should be logical and factually rooted decision making. In LA, council members are more powerful in their district than the mayor or any other elected official, they have absolute control over what gets built be it on parcels of land or even paint on the roads. Just look at the patchyness of the bike lane network to see this effect in action; metro has money earmarked and is ready to build but local council members just refuse to allow it to happen in their district. They operate as little feudal lords who award contracts to friends and deny contracts if some who holds their ear takes issue for whatever reason at all.

Urban planning decisions should not be controlled by politicians, they should be controlled by urban planners who are highly trained civil engineers from the best engineering schools hired to do an apolitical job. They understand these issues better than anyone else in government, and their decisionmaking is rooted in the cutting edge theories and ideas present in their field, profit and personal preference be damned.

This is how public government should be run, deferring decision making to informed experts rather than the wills and wishes of those who command the most influence over their representative.
> It's the majority of people that prioritize that which you do not like, it's not some hidden force that makes them.

Sure they are. People today grow up being told and shown how to be materialistic, how to value short term economical gain, and so on, and then you get people that are like that. It's not surprising, is it?

Humans are very much affected by the culture they grow up in. Our culture rewards greed, values gadgets ... our culture is a culture of bread and circus. So that's what you get, people who want that, because that's what they're taught to like. It's not surprising, is it. To "escape the matrix", you have to seek to do so, it doesn't just happen by itself. And by forcing people to work till they are tired, and sleep till they must work, you don't give them much chance of ever discovering such things, nor any thing that furthers humanity, as hnarn talks about, except in very rare cases where the stars align, and against all odds, it happens, but only rarely, because our society doesn't foster an environment that optimises for such things.