skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is already a scripting dialect of c#, that seems mostly used in some web apps and for learning purposes. So they want to "streamline" this aspect, because currently this dialect requires a lot of custom handling. https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/2765
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WHO was literally saying that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission, well after evidence was presented to them. There was nothing consistent about their messaging, nor was there nuance, they had the worst of both worlds.

It would be one thing for them to say nothing on the matter, while sorting through conflicting reports, but instead they presented a narrative that they are unlikely to have sincerely believed at the time; that is, they were probably not just wrong, but lying. That is, given what we know now, they probably did not believe what they were saying to the public (though their lower-level expert disclosures were generally fine).

At the top of the WHO, there is a hot-headed political activist who lashes out at people for criticizing him, rather than addressing the criticism. He has a well-documented political and ideological bond with the Communist Party of China, and a history of mismanaging outbreaks that is as long as his tenure at the WHO.

The WHO was not consistent. It is clear, to anyone who went back and compared notes, they got it wrong more often than the popular sources in the general public.

To put it bluntly, if you got your information about this outbreak from Joe Rogan (comedian podcaster), rather than the WHO, you would have had a more consistent perspective on the outbreak, and gotten there as much as a month earlier.
Wow. I've not used Spring, but that sounds terribly tedious and indirect. I imagine it's worth it though?
I believe this is all economically unsustainable. Ultimately, these costs cannot continue and people will just stop following all rules. The likely result is selective enforcement.
"The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor" by Gerald Pollack is an excellent book with many recent experiments. He models the "fourth phase" as being a lattice of H3O2, which is has a negative charge, to possibly explain phenomenon ranging from blood flow, plant sap flow, cloud formation, surface tension, water vesticules (bubbles & droplets), swelling from injury, etc.

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/health-issues/the...
>>> Is there a good reason to have a class hierarchy in modern programming?

rarely, but perhaps not "never".
Paywall complaints, which this is a variant of, are off topic here. They're always the same, which means they just add noise. HN is a site for diffs. Diffs are what's interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
On what do you base your opinion that the "the majority of ordinary Americans are not for sustaining the lockdown measures"? All the polling strongly suggests the opposite, the vast majority of Americans are very concerned about the virus and support the lockdown, and the protesters represent a small fringe.

For a funny take, see https://xkcd.com/2305
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It's very, very hard to do 20 years of service. Individuals typically have very little choice in staying. They must be promoted in a timely fashion or be booted. The problem, at least with the Navy, is that the higher enlisted ranks have fewer openings, meaning more competition, and seniority becomes a factor in promotion. So you may be a great soldier, get good marks from command, and score well on the exams, but still get passed over because people four or five years ahead of you get the job instead.

Each year that you miss a promotion compounds. You can only miss so many promotions before it becomes impossible to hit the rank where you may retire.
It is different when you go out of your way to extend the product in a way that is incompatible for no gain for your clients (and often in detriment of them). And when you make sure not to support the standard and use your market dominance to push your competitors out.

Nothing on the Halloween Documents resembles good faith. Those cases where companies just want to improve their products are much more benign and fail to have the same extinguishing power.
My experience with apt-get makes me so wary of package management as a whole that I'm finding myself afraid of winget. Centralized package management never appealed to me and package managers have been nothing but problems (broken state, incompatible mismatches of shared libraries, one installation at a time only, etc) for whatever marginal benefit (disk space is a lot cheaper than it was in the 90s and programs updating their own libraries works just fine, and you can always drop in a new dll yourself if it's so important)
I agree, Deno at least won't take off for a couple of years. Many libraries are missing and companies are not that willing to rewrite their apps again.
Unless the community abandons Node suddenly, it will be around but its market share will decline surely. If they can borrow some Deno features then the chance of Node dying will be very slim. Two that I find extremely useful are: url import and security.
On the hand, if on Deno side they build a compatibility layer with NPM, then it becomes the market de-facto.
Yes, time on page is a good metric for running experiments and optimizing the usefulness of web content. Even if it's one page.

Is there a server-side tracking way to do it?
Skylake is 4 years older than Zen 2, though.
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Lots of chat in the comments about how this is all websockets' fault, but don't forget you can portscan localhost with pure JS as well.

https://portswigger.net/research/exposing-intranets-with-rel...
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The MS Access Application object has some additional powers, LoadFromText() and SaveToText() not really found elsewhere in Office.

However, you can't really used them to dump the current database, and they don't both appear to be used in timabell's work for a quick glance.

The loader method even allows for the lighter-weight Forms from the other Office applications to be pulled into Access, though the motive for using them would not be clear.

My intent had been to write an Excel macro workbook as a manager tool, and use it to manage Access Dbs in git.

I have a library I call "The NecroVisualBasiCon" out in GitHub that I'll share if anyone is interested in peering into an abyss.
Current front end dev, here. My employer pays me to write JS, have been doing it for +4 years.

I've become comfortable with the fact that JS never stops changing (note the use of the word changing, not improving). I concern myself with fundamentals, not framework-flavor-of-the-month. I encourage others to focus on the same.

What I am not comfortable with is the stubbornly-held strong opinions many JS devs have. Much of the time, a particular JS dev will believe their way is the one-true-way(tm) (which is a problem among a lot technologists in general).

JS devs are the JS fatigue...not JS itself. I get bent when JS devs judge me for not staying up to date - JS is my 9 to 5, not my life.

For all the JS devs out there who hate me right now - check out Elixir, its the new "new."

FWIW, my personal projects are Spring Boot and Kotlin.
It's not 'simple', but it's definitely doable with Yubikey:
https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Guides/SSH_with_PIV_and_PK...

I've used it on macOS to use a PIV cert on a yubikey to ssh to remote linux servers. I have NOT used it to ssh-agent chain through, jump-box style though.
There is a VR application called SoundSelf, which makes interesting visualizations derived from your voice and singing to put you into meditative state. It seems like intriguing take on using biofeedback to achieve specific mind states.
This seems similar to the joke where after Brexit, the Germans are angry that english is still the official EU language and they change the english language until it sounds a lot like german.

In a few years, C# 20.0 will have only one release note: Changed the name from C# to F#
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Interesting, 26 year old me was willing to have children some day, 31 year old me was contemplating maybe having kids some day when he gets bored with life, 36 year old me never wants children, is married to someone who never wants children, had a vasectomy, and is still kinda afraid it will fail and he might end up with a kid.

The longer I live and look around the more I realize how annoying and life-ruining kids would be for me. And, while there may be many couples that are happier with kids, the ones that stick out for me are (also many) that either visibly have worse QoL, less happy marriages, etc., and the ones that visibly have stockholm syndrome.
Yea, that is right.
I mean, the Safari application is already doing XPC with the web content process constantly anyways. And perhaps they can batch these messages?
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> but I'm sure they have their reasons.

Making money by selling new chipsets.
Yeah, we've shifted to later as well, I'm a night owl by inclination, the boy seems to be as well, he'll crash from 3am til 12pm then get up.

Given he's happy I'm not rocking that boat.
Because when I open a 300-page, media-heavy game design document in Google docs on my i7, 32gb computer it still lags when I scroll it. And the last time I tried to use OpenOffice (or whatever was the fork called, I mix them up), I couldn't shake the feeling that UX was created by developers who just wanted to check the boxes in the list of features, without any field testing whatsoever.
There's a really interesting book called Digital Dementia that describes effects of modern digital tools on our brain. I'm not saying it's 100% correct, but interesting read nevertheless.
The full title is "Mammoth Biosciences partners with GSK to develop handheld CRISPR-based Covid-19 test".

However, given the problems with CRISPR potentially causing large numbers of unexpected changes for some gene targets (see links below), the original title of the submission (without the test) may be accurate/prophetic: applying CRISPR to the COVID19 problem could very well make the problem worse by creating a CRISPR version of COVID-19, because we don't know well enough how to control CRISPR results.

[1] https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biotechnology/CRISP...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5796662/

[3] https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/wtsi-gdf0713...
That's super interesting. It's hard to imagine what a legitimately authoritative anti-disinformation campaign would look like. Back when Operation INFEKTION was big, in the 80's iirc, the U.S. Department of State was involved in trying to counter claims of AIDS being of U.S. origin by sending out letters to many news outlets. Mostly the details of these letters were worked out by a group known as the "Active Mea-sures Working Group".

As far as I know, they were basically underfunded and understaffed, but worked hard to try to tease out the truth and track down the origins of disinformation. These days I'm not sure if it would help or hurt to have the likes of the CIA, FBI, DoD, etc running these groups considering peoples lack of trust in them. It's a tough problem for sure.
"screen time" is too broad a term and is too often described as something bad. But we need to understand screens are more like papers, and what we consume off the paper is what matters.
What I wouldn't give for an Eisenhower Republican resurgence and an FDR Democrat resurgence...minus the racism or segregationism allowing policies. But fiscally and socially, they were way better than anybody we've got in politics now.
Yes, but having poor sound isolation comes with reduced expectation of quietness (during daytime), not expectation of neighbors being whisper quiet.
2 others, and yes, everyone has access to the central git repo and to our shared private Docker repository.

And no, we use TensorFlow and Chainer, but both are python frameworks. Plus Numpy, of course.

I like that KubeFlow has an introduction video, but I find it quite odd, too. They talk a lot about how they will make things simpler, but then I learn that I'll need to run Kubernetes on my laptop, my servers, and potentially the cloud.

Plus they use irritating marketing phrases like "you can just focus on your model" or "let KubeFlow handle the abstraction of running on X". Most deep learning models nowadays are memory-limited, so improving the model may well mean optimizing GPU memory usage. And after trying to port a working model from Ubuntu + 1080 TI to Google Cloud + V100 and/or Google Cloud TPU, I distrust anyone who would treat those significant hardware differences as "just an abstraction".

So at the very least, I'll need to enforce consistent GPUs and Operating Systems among all servers, just to make things run OK everywhere.
Musk didn't create PayPal. Didn't Found Tesla. Hyperloop isn't a thing...

How this guy get some much love around here is beyond me.
Kirsten Dirksen has great channel content. Good to see it linked here.

[edit: spelling]
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We should use Mexico. Wages will be low. Shipping can come on trucks or rail. The labor pool is plenty large. And if we get into a large war it's close enough to more easily defend our factories. And the country is on good standing with the US, no aggression between the countries.

Mexico is preferable to China in almost every way. We start by lowering the tariffs there and raising them on a timetable in China. There's nothing that says it has to be all-or-nothing USA manufacturing. If we find another country to build up, there's only room to benefit. This is all within the scope of government powers.

The long term solution I'd mainly prefer is to directly subsidize the industries that we deem important to a manufacturing base, but beyond that at least lets find a country that doesn't threaten to destabilize what we've got going on.
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I'm pretty sure he didn't have that on most of the platforms he was targeting with his portable C code, it's not even there on some of them now.
Equational reasoning makes TDD and property based testing trivial (encode rules by examples, base cases and corner cases, which is the most natural way for humans to think); rule-based system are easier to extend and correct by design (bounded set of possible states); provides more powerful and elegant query languages (E.g. Datalog).

See https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc (skip to 1h mark to see some examples)
Just today I got flagged for a contrast of 4.49. Turned out that someone had mistakenly changed the page background from #f7f7f7 to $f4f4f4, which was enough to put the foreground color over the edge.
I was mixing cpu+chipset=arm soc.

A 10G port takes the same PCIe lane as a 1G port, particularly if you have PCIe gen4+ or are willing to potentially lose a bit with gen3. Similarly with power, EEE doesn't use the power if its not needed. Which for users on short runs, or with 1G switches the power utilization will be the same as a 1G port. And given that we are talking 200W parts, a watt or two for 10G isn't going to be missed.

And probably more of the motherboard manufactures would put 10G nics on board if there weren't a dearth of 10G pci nic chips from manufactures not already selling PCIe nics as high margin products. AKA intel selling its 10G part for more than the rest of the parts on the motherboard is going to keep motherboard manufactures from putting it on every motherboard.

Its sort of been a game of chicken, which will explode violently when the patents expire and a company like etron or asmedia starts producing them. (both of which have shown plenty of inhouse capability for producing high speed phy/etc interfaces).
Pretty great but pitty that it is a plug-in for wordpress.
> the Third Age is about clearing away legacy assumptions and collapsing layers of tooling.

i feel like the bit about "clearing away legacy assumptions" wasn't substantiated very well – basically just "CommonJS isn't necessary anymore because ES Modules are a thing now". which is true, but i feel like a sweeping statement like that needs a bit more. and if that assumption is where other "legacy assumptions" stem from, it'd be nice to expand on it a bit
I guess I'm unsentimental, but I don't really see the point of restricting access to the wreck. People say it's a grave or memorial, but its not like it was built for that, its just the ship the people happened to be in when they died. We generally don't preserve crashed airplanes/trains/etc as memorials to the people that died in them. And its not like mourning family members or their descendants can visit it.

If I or one of my family members die in a shipwreck, I can't imagine I'd have any particular problem with people salvaging from the same. If some future salvager wants to go salvage an iphone or whatever from the ship, I can't see why I'd be upset by the fact that my corpse is now resting in a ship with one less random knicknack in it.

The radio seems like an interesting artifact that people will enjoy seeing, while at the bottom of the ocean it isn't doing anyone any good. If people want to bring it to the surface, let them have at it.
I love the fact that my generation (nearly 40) and the one after me both grew up playing ultra violent games and listening to rap etc and yet the crime statistics for violent crime are lower than they've been for about a century.

Schadenfreude on that one.
My prediction - the third age of Javascript will be the same as the second with tooling headaches, "transpiling", and fractured dialects. Except in this age we are all forced to use it as major companies sandbox away powerful APIs in favor of more control of their stores.

Dark times are ahead. The future is chrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCfNhyIo_U
If you want to be extra cynical, think of it as an asset auction listing as part of a liquidation.
I guess my point was you'd have the same issue with things that are not heap allocated, if they also did not implement Copy.
Couldn't one adopt and have the same experience?
Oh, I agree that it’s essential to a functioning justice system. I’m just upset about corrupt prosecutors. For example, sometimes, even with all the evidence pointing to Person A, the police will still railroad (an unrelated) Person B because they, for some reason, can’t admit they’re wrong.
Does anyone know of good places to look for similarly interesting puzzles? I'd recommend https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/ but I'm looking for others to supplement that!
to think about it... Microsoft also owns Minecraft, so a ten year old redstone scientist is already locked in, even without Git, NPM and all those things
In the past, mercenaries were paid with the spoils of war. Modern artillery makes that impossible - everything gets smashed to bits.
Straight up lying does exist, and it exists alongside bias and propaganda.

The irony is to combat fake news and lies is also to combat bias, persuasion and tactics to influence.

None of those with power or in the media game want to do this really because it makes them weaker.
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Nothing in your comment argues against the claim that all (both) parties are irredeemably corrupt though. You're just arguing that Trump is worse.

I do agree with the latter statement, but I completely understand why so many people just went 'fuck it' and voted for him. The Democrats are a nasty bunch too.

EDIT: if you're on a sinking ship, and one party argues in favor of arranging the deck chairs in a certain way and tut-tuts about suboptimal ways, and another party says (or is forced to say) "fuck it, arranging deck chairs is stupid.", would you not agree with the latter? Of course it's unfortunate when this is followed up with "let us buy new expensive deck chairs from this friend of mine", but that's not an issue when the media focuses on the arrangement of deck chairs.
In golang, a white horse is a horse: If you ask me for a horse, I can give you a white horse. But if I want a stable for n horses, it's not correct to give me a stable for n white horses, because that doesn't account for yellow or black horses. Does this violate the substitution principle?

(inb4: "It depends on what the meaning of 'is', is!")
Let me guess... doing code reviews sucks?
Is “standard off-the-shelf” equipment of the time that has little value outside the ship truly an item of interest?
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Bringing up NVIDIA and graphics issues tells me that you seem to be religious about this and not willing to view the other side of the argument.
Not to defend Trump, I can't think of more than a handful of times I've ever agreed with him, but can you imagine the uproar had he praised Russia for their efforts at Auschwitz?

Probably would have been best to praise the result without mentioning any specific parties involved in carrying it out. Then again, Trump isn't really known for thinking in nuance.
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If you're already bound to Yubikey, though, any advantage to PKCS#11 over OTP?

Theoretically it's an open standard, but there seems to be only one real vendor.
From a practicality standpoint, I strongly discourage using unofficial APIs, as tech companies nowadays are very prone to sending out C&Ds. If you have a use case where the official API doesn't suffice, then do not redistribute anything obtained from the unofficial API, and definitely do not attempt to commercialize it.
C# is Microsoft Research's 20-year-long con to turn Java programmers into OCaml programmers so slowly that they don't notice.
There's been Microsoft levels of anticompetitive practices from every proprietary hypervisor vendor. The others are seen as "oh, look! They're working with Linux! yay!" for a code dump across the wall (like vmware, and arguably z/VM), whereas here Microsoft appears to be doing everything right and working with upstream to modify a minimal MVP and are being lambasted for it.

It feels like they're doing everything right and everything we've asked for, for decades, and being shunned for it. What's the mechanism here for Linux winning and Microsoft being allowed into the community and what should they be doing different?
In that case "We" haven't decided anything at all what you suggest.

But now you and I are in the weeds.

I hope you see my point, that's all. Discrimination isn't good. Even if you don't agree with the other party.
I think the demand for PCI express 4.0 is going to be a lot higher than you realize.

The new PS5 is going to have SSD speeds of over 5000 mb/s, and is coming out soon.

PC gamers are going to be jealous until they are able to have speeds like that. After all, they are supposed to be the "PC Master Race". But the only SSD devices on the PC that can come close to the PS5's SSD speed are PCI express 4.0 devices.
I’m sure that’s true and maybe I’m misremembering but I still think I had to apt install a Python runtime I could actually invoke from the shell.
You can totally have modularity and lack of coupling with implementation inheritance. That doesn't mean you necessarily will in every problem (especially if you're not paying attention), but in general it's a false dichotomy.

Also, calling a visitor a glorified switch() is technically correct but makes a mockery out of it. You generally wouldn't want to (well, shouldn't want to) implement it as a switch(), though in simpler situations there might not be much difference. It can have implications on extensibility, modularity, etc... which is kind of obvious, otherwise everyone would be doing that and not going through the trouble of making a visitor.
Zoom: Put yourself in a looping video so you can skip the meeting