skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it:

- unreachability means there's no live reference to that object.
- access means somebody is going to use this object again. If you have a live reference but won't ever use it again it's a kind of leak (that's how GCed languages can leak memory without any manual management).
It’s like Java... tons of orgs will trade off perf to enable an engineering team of mixed quality to deliver projects.
Five years? Make that ten; the progress since Sandy Bridge has been incredibly slow. If you take a Sandy Bridge i5 or i7 CPU and turn off the mitigations, it's still within spitting distance of the current i5/i7 models. The only reason I changed out my old i5-2500K two years ago was that the motherboard had finally failed. It was holding up fine with any software I was running, including modern games from that time such as Doom 2016.

Intel really has got to be in an internal panic. The last time AMD pushed Intel this hard, Intel went to extraordinary tactics to push AMD out of the market. I wouldn't be surprised if pushing their workers well beyond safety limits was in the current playbook.
How is that not reality?
To clarify, it’s the farmer or resource producer shorting or selling the future to protect against the price falling (where the short will make money) while the buyer of a future (processing industries, farmers needing feed, etc.) does so to protect against high prices (where the price goes up unexpectedly). You can also do this with options on futures for presumably more leverage.

That said, it varies by regional availability. For instance, Canada has fewer options: https://www.producer.com/2017/11/hedging-with-u-s-futures-an... To properly hedge a Canadian producer using a US future you’d need to also hedge against the Canadian dollar, presumably. And hope that the weather and such is similar enough.
*"The problem is that in order to be effective, everyone must be wearing a mask, and wearing it properly at all times."

The problem is that masks are not effective, and the sources I cited demonstrate this.
If you need large amounts of oil, then either you plan on taking physical delivery, so you can just let the contract expire, or you don't plan on taking delivery of that oil, in which case you want cash settlement contracts.
When it comes to batteries, energy density is not a concern, it's only cost.

Cost has been high enough that frequency regulation has been the biggest use.

Cost is still high enough that uses from multiple revenue streams will be necessary to fully recoup costs, except in fantastically fucked up markets like where the Tesla battery went in Australia.

But the writing is on the wall. Looking at current usages, and current market penetration, and thinking its reflective of the future is exactly what Palm did when the iPhone came out. Costs are falling exponentially, but the switchover will be happen much faster than the price change once storage is cheaper than its alternatives, it's a non-linearity.

We are already seeing a lot of bids for future solar and wind installs including storage, and then bidding on capacity payments, which is a sea change from even two years ago.

Utilities, if they were more forward looking, could be using this technology switch as an opportunity to massively increase their profits. Unfortunately, nearly all I've heard of are instead living in the past and don't want to accept a world where they have to anticipate advancing and improving technology, and are scared of losing the lobbying power that comes from a tight alliance with fossil fuels. It's perhaps good to have stolid and conservative leadership in something as essential as utilities, but at some point ignoring new tech becomes more dangerous and radical than trying to embrace it.
Maybe it just normalized to be only "normies", and normal people just happen to really like dongs, even if unspoken?
Does anyone know how to implement a virtual webcam in python on MacOS? I want to implement something like zoom's background replacement but I can't find a way to represent the output as a webcam that can be used as an input by various conferencing apps.
A case from Dec 27 in Paris was confirmed after samples were re-tested when we knew about the virus...
I just received the same and i would have much appreciated if they also shared the actual data with us, only MY OWN data obviously :)
Thank you! I'll dig into this. This sounds like exactly the thing I've been looking for!
You can use hooks with redux now, so what’s the purpose of using connect instead of useDispatch or useSelector?
Cool!

I wrote an IRC server in Python Twisted some years ago, can’t seem to find the code anymore but I love how simple IRC is. I hope the protocol fragmentation has improved somewhat with efforts like IRCv3.
Teach them about what "in scope" "out of scope" and "scope creep" mean.
I left Octopress (a flavor jekyll) for those reasons[1]. Pelican[2] is what I use now. It takes a dir of markdown files and makes a decent website. It was even easy for me to write a no-nonsense theme without being good at python.

[1] https://brashear.me/blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress...

[2] https://blog.getpelican.com/
Would be interesting to see this normalized by say DOM elements per page. Also Svelte and other lean bundle approaches should be included.
The difference is there are plenty of US movies that can denounce their own government while Chinese movies can never take any criticism about themselves. I would take self-promotion over censorship any day.
> One part of being a community is slowly building values in new members. Many communities, many subreddits as an example, form monocultures and ruthlessly stamp out opinions not aligned to the deigned philosophy (and then being monocultures, they die a slow death).

Yes indeed. Reddit is famous for this, and getting worse by the day. But how might we know, for sure, the degree to which that also happens here? And I don't mean that rhetorically. We can all instantaneously generate "an" answer to that question, based on heuristics, but how accurate is that answer? To gain some certainty, it would require looking at actual data, which is firstly dependent on a willingness to look at the data, which is firstly dependent on a willingness to consider the idea that there may be a problem. This last point seems like a rather touchy subject.

"building values in new members" also seems like a well-accepted but heuristically-based idea. Is it, in fact, only new members who lack these values? Luckily, HN profiles contain an "accounted_created" attribute...with a little effort writing some scraping code (something I don't presently know how to do), I suspect some more precise, evidence-based answers would quickly reveal themselves.

What would be even more revealing would be if one had access to voting history. This way, we could get a decent feel for how certain individuals feel about this general topic. But alas, you and I don't have access to that data. But someone does (see: willingness to look at the data). Shall we truly pursue righteousness, or should we just declare ourselves to be, by fiat, as seems to be the most popular approach in broad society?

> HN as a community places value on interesting, well informed debates...

In the abstract, principled[1] sense, sure. But, how well do we "walk the talk"? Once again: what does the data say?

> as long as we do our best to consistently embrace it positively

And consistently. But now we're back to where we started.

> Keep debating and pushing forward on interesting conversations, keep doing it politely and in the interest of meaningful debate.

Despite the obvious unpopularity, and repeatedly inconsistent (again, based on topic) evaluation of "meaningful debate", as well as the HN Guidelines in general, I seem unable to stop lol

[1] "Lord, I promise not to sin!" Inconsistent adherence to an ideology, however strongly held in theory or principle, is not a problem only within the domain of religion, I suspect. Rather, it seems more like something inherent in human beings. Failure rates may vary fairly significantly across domains (or may not!), but this is a difference in degree, not a difference in kind.
I want to read that. Can you post it on here or on your profile or something please?
Why companies should have a dedicated Site Reliability Engineering team
Is a dev agency basically a consulting company?
UnixBench would be great. I have a bash script that runs several benchmarks and create a website: https://github.com/Cyclenerd/benchmark

You would have to remove Geekbench from Line 650 in the source code. Does not work with ARM.
I don't think old reddit is ugly, though it takes some getting used to. Combined with RES for some minor enhancements (navigation etc) and it's great.

It's similar to HN. Not fantastic design, but incredible information density and usability.
That would seem counter to, "with no intention of taking delivery," from your parent's comment.
> Not sure why you're getting downvoted

The person you responded to is getting downvoted for being blindingly naive about corporations.
https://p2p.riot.im is a webapp and runs in browser.
> However, if they were truly being honest, they could easily donate 10-15% of their own income to food banks/red cross/etc. which would actually be vastly more effective in assuaging poverty than a tax increase, even if only Democrats participated.

I don’t see why this has to be true. I’m also not going to sacrifice my resources and be competitively disadvantaged because other people don’t want to pay taxes. I’m going to continue trying to vote for a government that reduces the wealth/income gap, but until the collective decides it and works toward it, it behooves me and my kids to play the game individually.
I feel like I'm over-sensitive to sounds and noises. I can hear someone's Facebook message ding over my noise-canceling headphones while listening to music, and it bugs me. Not sure how I get affected productivity-wise, but I am definitely more prone to lashing out at people or sending angry emails when there are too many of these things.

Also, if you have your sound turn on, are in an open-space office, you keep messaging someone and your messenger keeps making loud sounds, that's incredibly rude and I think very poorly of you.
angularjs gives you something no other framework has. Two way binding. Change a variable in the frontend the backend changes. Change it in the backend the frontend changes.
> Legal name, or online identity? I don't feel comfortable revealing my legal name online.

Name that a reader can recognize as something that identifies you to the collective. There's a 0% chance that he cares what your parents wrote on a paper at the hospital.
> eBay is on sellers side as they bring profits

Amazing how perspective is. I'm 99% a buyer (hundreds of items bought, and three items sold, and never again).

I sold a Mavic 2 Pro drone with 5 batteries. The whole process was a mess. Buyer complained that it didn't come with the CrystalSky tablet in one picture (that was added after they started bidding, to show Flight Logs, was explicitly disclaimed as being a part of the package, and was not in the receipts I sent the buyer). After that, three weeks later:

"The batteries don't work."

"Any of them?"

"Nope. I want a refund."

Note that two of the batteries were less than 4 months old, still in warranty.

He then stated he wanted a refund of $800. Bear in mind, 5 brand new batteries would be $670.

No evidence was shown. I stated I'd like to get the original batteries back, as I'd be able to get them replaced under warranty or possibly repaired and recoup some of my money (I was skeptical there was any issue, but still). He agreed. I asked him to send me an eBay message acknowledging that the partial refund was contingent on him sending me the batteries back and that he accepts me disputing the refund if not.

He does so.

Refund is sent (for about $700, to include his return shipping costs).

Less than an hour later I get a message, "USPS says they won't ship damaged batteries so I will not be returning them".

I then suggest we meet in person to exchange them (I live a few hours away, not convenient, but still, $700...). He umms and ahhs, "How will I be able to prove that I gave them to you in person?". I suggest we do it in a police station (his local PD suggests people do this for CL, etc.). More umm and ahh. "I need to contact eBay support to see if they recommend this." (eBay has a FAQ page describing how they recommend doing in person sales, and refunds, and documenting it). "I never heard back from them so I'm not sure what to do". I point this out, and he goes silent.

I open a dispute. No evidence provided for damage/faulty goods. Multiple instances of the buyer trying to show something/anything was problematic with the listing. Not abiding by agreement, refusing/avoiding any method of returning damage.

"We have closed your dispute. Based on our review, the buyer is entitled to a partial refund for damage. He is not required to return the batteries".

So he ended up with a Mavic 2 Pro, with less than 20 hours flight time, 5 batteries, for in the order of $950, all told.

eBay is on the side of least resistance, damage or liability, financial responsibility to eBay, no-one else.
And you mention this as if it was a good thing.
So is the round-trip to the server going to be noticeably slower to the user than an SPA on average?
That agrees that the virus is mostly transmitted via droplets rather aerosolized virus particles. A bare virus can float in the air for quite a while but all the evidence we have, especially stuff like form that site, seems to show that that isn't a route by which people are being infected. Instead its being transmitted over shorter distances, generally around 6 feet but longer if someone is shouting, singing, coughing without covering, or just directly downwind.
You can't bring in someone's personal details to use as ammunition in an argument. That's a form of personal attack, and we ban accounts that do it. Please don't do this again.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There weren't any surges in human trafficking, burglary & robbery recorded after prohibition was lifted. There was a steep decline in contraband goods, however.
I admire this library of ordinal notations I wrote, which can be considered as a systematic meditation on the nature of strong AI and more specifically on computer programs that write computer programs:

https://github.com/semitrivial/ions
Minimal techno, progressive house, and other non-vocal music works best for me.

I'm shocked people are able to handle vocals in their music -- any words in music instantly drag my attention away.
Ask HN: How does outline.com load sites behind paywalls?
Why Are We Using Black Box Models in AI When We Don’t Need To? (2019)
Funny that you cite diseased animals as evidence of thriving.
I am genuinely surprised for a long time that I've not seen 4D monsters in films. It has been so obvious to me there's potential there.

It would of course be a flat 2D projection of a 3D slice through a 4D creature, so it would look like a smoothly morphing between different creatures, and in and out of existence so we've sort of had morphing for a long while (since Willow, C. 1985) but... there's potential.

In case I missed it, any films actually done that?
Dev experience and productivity is key, but don't forget that 10x bundle size has effects you can't simply dismiss. It does cause a UX problem since a slower pageload is part of the UX.

SEO. Google also takes into account page / paint times.

These are the things your stakeholders probably don't know about but you should.
Are you going to take legal action?
Face masks for the public during Covid-19: an appeal for caution in policy [pdf]
when you're less "component-y" with your styles, yeah, that happens pretty frequently. careful styling is mostly rare (like all careful things)... but atomic styling seems to make the savings of careful styling effectively impossible, though I absolutely believe it helps the less-careful (especially the least-careful) cases.
Imagine this:

A "free" ad-driven social networking site that brings in gigantic revenue, but that has to pay thousands of high-priced engineers to implement all of the cruft you just described.

versus ...

A subscription-based, non-ad-driven social networking site (perhaps operating as a member-owned cooperative?) that brings in much more modest revenue but that also can operate with many fewer engineers because it can be largely cruft-free.

I know there have been a gazillion attempts at the latter and none has succeeded in any way comparable to the "free" sites. It's too bad, because if any of them were to ever achieve Facebook scale, the subscription price would probably be quite modest.
Thanks for the Tcl memories.
I completely agree, especially when we redefine AI to mean roombas and lane assist.
Well then you are no doubt aware that these statistics skew overwhelmingly toward those who are noncompliant, combative, and/or felons, correct? Such that the actual rate for "average" people (including minorities, although their rate may be higher) is probably miniscule.
And if you want to get byzantine, I've had several Amazon orders that were drop-shipped from Walmart.com, which has at least reminded me that I should comparison shop.
You can claim that you rolled dice, but that won't be sufficient - the distrimination law explicitly puts the burden of proof on the employer to demonstrate that the firing was because of a non-discriminatory reason, so if it's just the employer asserting that it was because of dice and the employee asserting that it was because of race, then the employer automatically loses unless they have convincing evidence to state their case.

That's part of why you'd often see lots of HR bureaucracy regarding firing process, documenting infractions, performance improvement plans, etc also in states where technically you can be fired without a reason.
For anyone having difficulty shining bright
More to the point is that a bunch of dumbasses were speculating on oil futures without understanding the nature of the market, and no ability to take delivery on the oil in any event. Nobody should be holding those when they're so close to expiry unless they know what they're doing.
Getting Started With: Python I/O
Never mind, I found it at miscdotgeek.
That is the point I was trying to make. Basically if you're in the business of producing or buying and selling the commodity the futures are for you. If you're just speculating how does that help anybody? I guess you could make the argument that having more eyes on the market means there is more information so the price is a better reflection of the true value.
Glimpse into a Post-Pandemic World
You could do some Ajax request with jQuery and update the page.
do we need permission to "scrape reality" (gather data)? (I agree "audit" is not a good word here)
Props to Dang, who is so active that I sometimes wonder if he’s an AI
On a related note, there used to be a site, https://twitch-tools.rootonline.de/, where you could find "uncategorized" streams with no game set. All sorts of strange broadcasts live there, from pirate sports casts to whole movies streamed to the most random garbage, but the owner took most of the site down after Twitch requested that they stop scraping the site (https://twitter.com/CommanderRoot/status/1250486976547106821). I haven't been able to find any alternative services that offer this. If anyone has such a service, I'd love to go surfing around the strange part of Twitch again.
I feel that this is a violation of trust. A lot of users are there to talk to another person, they're not necessarily ready or willing to be shirtless in front of tens of thousands of people. If I was on a jury and there was a lawsuit, I would award damages.
> Check again. Your link backs up the chart I posted.

The chart you posted shows a total of just over 20k deaths in all of New York state between March 1st and April 25th, while the link I posted shows 27k deaths in NYC alone between March 11th and April 25th.

Your chart also shows about 4k non-coronavirus deaths, again across the whole state for that period, while the NYC-only stats show more than 10k "Deaths not known to be confirmed or probable COVID-19" in less than that amount of time.

Now repeat with double the population to account for the rest of the state (with lower coronavirus incidence) and another 10 days (about 20% of the time period in question) that had the normal incidence of non-coronavirus deaths.

So, no, nothing about that chart matches up to reality.
Wasn't this a cash settled contract?
All the time.

I have learned very useful tricks over time, like the ability to automate code creation to incredible levels with my own dialects of lisp that makes me hundreds of times more productive.

But when I was young I used scalable vector graphics to document everything I did, and some ideas I had are quite impressive to me today.
Earn credits by getting random people to signup on your SaaS referral links
>twitch is one of the platforms where I feel like I've struggled the most to get viewers.

That's expected though. It's also true of YouTubers, and Instagram 'influencers'. Because the barrier to entry is low, you're competing with hundreds of thousands of other streamers for the same set of eyeballs. Except for a tiny minority, the vast majority of you will never make a penny from streaming. Do it as a hobby, but don't expect to make a living off of it.
They’re trying to police 2.5 billion accounts with 45 thousand employees (including HR, developers). I’m not surprised they stuck. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not OK for them to suck, but I’m not surprised given the 55,555:1 accounts:staff ratio.
Just saw this comment. Saying "don't censor expression of opinions on online platforms" is not saying "teach creationism" in schools, nor "teach that the earth is flat".

In other words I think that's very much a red herring.
Uber loses $2.9B, offloads bike and scooter business
I'm one of those people. I don't want my parents to die because some people couldn't suck it up for a few months. Get mad at your government, not people that are afraid for their loved ones and being unable to make it to their funerals.

The reason hospitals aren't overwhelmed is because social distancing is working. All these "facts" are evidence of quarantine doing what it was intended to do.

The quarantine we have is already extremely relaxed. I don't think there's any reason to relax it further without killing more people.
feature request: language picker. saying hi to someone that doesn't speak my language has got me kicked.
Yes, in game developers forums and magazine articles like Gamedev, IGDA, Gamasutra, EDGE, MCV Develop, MakingGames, GDC talks, Gamasutra, the long gone Flipcode, demoscene discussion forums, the media meetings at many Game Design schools.

Usually I only find this anti-Apple argumentation in pro FOSS forums.
Can people be counted in both categories?
In order to apply finite element approximation approaches.
I am not sure if I agree or disagree but I like where you're going. What is economic reality? That's such a tough definition.

A pessimistic view of the economy would say it is horrible because we now have a 14.7% unemployment rate and this is a record. An optimistic view is in an unprecedented time we have a 85.3% employment rate.

So, what is an economic reality?

One thing I do agree on, the market needs to stay up so as to secure the future of many.
Facebook’s oversight board could rewrite the rules of the entire internet
I like the clear incentives i.e. to convert users to $1/month subscription rather than a free service that mines data.

However, the "cant read your emails" part is somewhat misleading. Slimbox is still storing and processing all of the email headers, most importantly the
'to' and 'from'. This is understandable because it's as granular as you can get to provide this service. It just would be awesome if no data was transferred at all and instead ran in a client but there's the obvious trade-offs of speed, reliability, and availability.
Ever wondered how clap buttons work on blogs? It's quite surprising