skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is another way of looking at this. IBM isn't what it used to be, it is essentially a consulting company rather than an R&D powerhouse. Investors are not particularly excited about its growth prospects and do not think it should invest a bunch of money to grow. It may be more efficient for the economy as a whole for IBM to distribute its profits so that money could be allocated to companies where growth makes more sense.

What you are suggesting is that every company should prioritize growth by reinvesting in itself. It doesn't always make sense to do so though.
Persistent Memory Primer
I’m not sure it’s damage or fooling the plants. The whole purpose of flowers is to be pollinated by bees.
My personal theory is - that voice assistants are intentionally bad, to hide the amount of data collected, even though annonymized, from the people.

They are a Trekkie dream, used by now as a clown to hide the ultimate information grab.
> and despite its excellent concurrency characteristics the BEAM still lacks basics such as a battle-tested raft implementation.

A couple of years ago the RabbitMQ team has published a raft library[1] which they use in their implementation of persistent queues. It has a flexible API and implementing your own state machines is quite straightforward, as it follows the OTP gen_* behaviour paradigm.

And by now, I'd say it's pretty well battle-tested.

[1] https://github.com/rabbitmq/ra
It's because new cases peaked at the end of April for Sweden, so the population is probably already most of the way towards herd immunity.

How is that possible? Two main theories are being explored:

1. The population didn't start out 100% susceptible like the models assume. Some large fraction of people may have pre-existing immunity from prior coronavirus infections.

2. The population is non-homogeneous. The models assume everyone is equally virulent and equally susceptible. If that assumption is changed and the models re-run, they show the epidemic taps out at about 15-20% infected.

https://www.nicholaslewis.org/why-herd-immunity-to-covid-19-...
Ask HN: What is the difference b/w WFH, Permanent WFH, Remote Work, Flexible?
With the latest trend/hype/evolution in development across the tech culture, what is the difference between all these terms that are floating around.

This is in reference to Shopify, Square, Twitter, Facebook's recent announcement.

Thanks
Why does she keep using that sim/number..
I was there, and it was one of the first thing for which you clicked in the "yes and don't bother anymore" tick to make the dialog silent in the future.
It was kinda pointless back then, but also there was no data protection law, and data collection and profiling was not a thing.

So, what if those dialogs would come back? Maybe with a more user friendly UI to accept site's ad tracking cookies or not, and remember the choice for the future?
Would user care about them? would browser vendors care about them? would sites acknowledge the choice made?
I agree, I think he is vastly underestimating the number of people who have comorbidities.
Everyone can look at a pen stroke and identify the color.

Can you say the same about a photo and identifying the file format?
Yes. That’s fine if you’re not adulting - with kids, bills, the need to pay health insurance etc.

If I were under 26, no responsibilities and could get on my parents insurance sure.
Well, longer then. And I imagine it's been active that many years, not getting "this subscriber is no longer available" or whatever.
Something similar happened to me, some shop misprinted some flyers and put our landline number on them. We got calls for years and sometime we still get some (you can infer how much time has passed since by the fact I'm talking about a landline)
> Why on earth should someone living in a state specifically ask for the local time in a different location within that same state?

Who said they were in that state when asking? People travel.
To me this seems like a cool ethical decision, but why would they do this? It would seem that people who don't use resources but still monthly donate money are ideal customers (from a financial standpoint)?
I said it before, will say it again:

this should be a problem of Red Hat management. I'm sure they are very much aware Hutterer is overwhelmed (what with blog posts, talks even, and all), but they won't hire anyone to work with him.

In that blog post, there's a call to share the load but do it as free labor:

"Anyway, I'm largely writing this blog post in the hope that someone gets motivated enough to dive into this. Right now, if you get 50 patches into libinput you get the coveted second-from-the-top spot, with all the fame and fortune that entails (i.e. little to none, but hey, underdogs are big in popular culture)."

I believe if that position came with a Red Hat paycheck, finding a #2 wouldn't be such a problem.
I don't know why it should be tiny, given what it's trying to do. Multiple kilobytes are dedicated to CSS color names and ColorBrewer scales, which don't compress well.

At the end of the source there's a section where you can comment out lines which should remove sections of the code when compressing it.
Not sure where Boomberg is getting its digits.

Wholesale price for LFP cells in China has been stably below $100 per kwh for like 5 years.

The only problem is getting to those wholesale quantities.

All major LFP cell makers seem to run a cartel to cut off small distributors from preferential pricing. Anything you can buy in small wholesale is at least 2x the price of what companies making EVs are getting.

Once upon a time good offers like these https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=599076665397 come up, and then vanish.
https://github.com/axa-group/Parsr
It might go back to Anglo-Norman (Frenchish) language:

Apres midi
Post midi
McKinsey just lost their schedule contracts with the feds: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-policy/2020/05/gs...
Yeah, what a weird "solution" to be okay with. Wonder if they'd be as okay with repeating a workday because their hours weren't logged due to a system error.
I’ve had this same issue with a different laptop. On my machine, any change in WiFi network or Bluetooth device availability would cause the laptop to spin up, prevent sleep, and drain battery. One trick is to turn off connected standby and switch to “disconnected modern standby”. That disables the WiFi and Bluetooth chips during standby, which should solve your issues. The only downside I’m aware of is that the machine will take a few seconds upon awakening to reconnect to WiFi and Bluetooth peripherals.

Alternatively, you can disable connected/modern standby altogether and revert to traditional S3 sleep. You lose that instant-on tablet effect, but it should fix the excess battery drain too.
You are right. I've changed my reply to enhanced questioning.

It's a shame that GWB, Condi Rice, Cheney, Tenet, Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld are walking around, on TV, and sitting on boards and none have faced consequences.
PIA A320 at Karachi, impacted residential area during final approach
At this point in time sites will put the banner "just because", or even for satire/ironic purposes (like the late '90s "best viewed with any browser" banner)

what if wothout the banner an overzealous bureucrat tries to extort you some money for an alleged GDPR violation?
what if the news will cover that your site is being investigated for GDPR violation?
On a related note, and seeing that some people around here are interested to learn the topic from different angle: Gerald Jay Sussman (among others, co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) has co-written a book on differential geometry called Functional Differential Geometry.

It builds up the theory of differential geometry using Scheme, just like SICP and SICM, and is a fantastic read for programmers wanting to grasp the topic in a more familiar language.

It is available for download for free on the publisher's website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome...
Show HN: Random good news about Covid-19
It was the World Series long before Canada was involved. :-)
> No way to invoke a command through a system shell. Yes, I know that system(3) is bad.

I think a crate that offers more shell-like convenience functions/macros for scripting would be more powerful than just adding a system()-equivalent to the standard library.
Siri is still bad (and perhaps indisputably the worst assistant), but the competition in other similar areas, where text is typed, don’t seem to be any better. When I’m on a browser and go to Bing or Google, they try to guess my location from the IP address and show news from/around the location. Move to maps, and suddenly it’s like using a product from a totally different company that wants to avoid using IP address for geolocation (maybe because someone didn’t like it for some other purpose). Start typing a street name and the autocomplete list would above a bunch of places in the US (it’s almost always the US) until I finish typing the city name (and sometimes the state or country too). Goes to show how poorly these services are designed.
Siri is particularly dumb in this regard. Even something as simple as ‘play again’ will not always simply repeat a track. The inconsistency is infuriating.

There are many more examples. Apple demoed the ability to ask for songs by asking Siri to ‘play that song from Top Gun’, which doesn’t work anymore.

On a somewhat related note, DuckDuckGo can be particularly bad at local search. I live in Ireland and country search is simply broken returning Australian sites over Irish sites. I have to qualify every search with Ireland or Dublin to get it to be anyway useful.
That is an amazing site you linked there -- got caught up reading how this person managed to get a working game dump from an old tape with a non-100% working tape reader with all kinds of interesting hackery. Pretty darn impressive!
This is related to how we got phone numbers in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger#Rotary_di...
The Future of Tech: NL Generation, AI Generated Code, AI CV
Agreed. These messages are personal and are 100% intended to go to Elon Musk by the people sending them. Regardless of whether they had the wrong number or not, she doesn't have the right to go share them with NPR and the world.
I moderate a sub because if found it useful, I want to make sure it thrives and it's my way of giving back to the community, even if I don't participate as much as some other redditors.
> Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others...

In the absence of a government and legal framework, the concept of "lawfully" does not exist. The freedom to engage in unlawful violence is one of the freedoms that people under a government sacrifice and exchange for aggregate safety.

If I have a dispute with my neighbor over who owns the cherry tree, I could solve the problem my negotiating with them and coming to reasonable terms on sharing the tree, or I can slaughter them where they stand, and I'm under the risk they will try to solve the problem by slaughtering me where I stand, regardless of what I choose. If the two of us are living under a government, the law and the threat of government violence curtails one of those options for us both. It is a choice we willingly give up for the benefit of giving up the risk that the other will choose the same.
The trick doesn't work if reproduced by humans - obviously it is misunderstood
Did you check `/sys/power/men_sleep`? it was the source of this problem for me on XPS.
I used it once, but now there's so many competitive alternatives.

Firestore from Firebase is pretty similar and nice to work with, they also have a very generous free tier
I loved QBasic. Did Numerical Analysis homework in college with it and wrote a clone in the late 90s that integrated with the web/CGI. It was my favorite until Turbo Pascal came out.
perfect phishing opportunity, if not worse
I was referring to wiping out regional languages within France. But let's not forget that the French did it in Britain. Yeah, it was a long time ago. No I'm not bashing France. I like France for the most part.
Yeah, she sounds like a chill person. I hope things work out for her.
In the US, I have definitely met people who will profess not being able to understand military time (this is a common way to refer to 24-hour time). They would recognize it as a time, but not get any other context from it.
Check `/sys/power/men_sleep`. For me its default setting was the source of poor battery life during suspend.
Soft_dwcas: CMPXCHG16B Exposed
My first programming language was AppleSoft Basic. My Aunt gave me a book, they have Apple II at work, and I read it and learned it even though I dont have an Apple II at that time or even a computer.
Those "Extreme Edition" CPUs[0] were nicknamed "Emergency Edition" for a reason.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4#Gallatin_(Extreme_Ed...
Why isn’t Watson driving profit at IBM? Is Watson still little more than a “man behind the curtains” marketing tool?
Elon has really kicked the hornets nest. This is the level of petty BS they will publish about somebody they don’t like. Imagine what they turn a blind eye to if they like you.
AI, Decentralization and the Captcha Arms Race
I see this as a flaw of Linux development model, and how code from hardware vendors gets a free go.

When Linux was still small, each and every major hardware platform was worked on until mirror polish, and it worked "well."

Now, the only criteria, when Linux mainly relies on hardware maker programmers to do their job, is that the code compiles and works.

Without much pressure from users, there is nobody to push against "barely works" driver code.
A skin care consultant with terrible skin... Maybe should consider what else they're lying about.
My mistake, I was actually replying to lotsofpulp on the 100 mile border zone. Once you've cleared the border it's not a free for all. All rights, except those related to the border crossing, are restored.
My guess is that the real problem that was touched on is Mr. Musk gives the number out to get rid of unwanted contacts.

I had a number like this, except it was for a drug dealer with a similar area code, and most of the crazy texts and calls slowed down after a few months. I have a common name and get similar wacky emails. It's an impossible problem to solve when it is a problem.

Every couple of years stories like this come out. It's pretty common for celebrities to give out old numbers to undesirable contacts. There was a story in the NY papers a few years ago about a guy getting calls from one-night stand hookups of a musician. The musician gave out his number from 20 years ago because it sounded real.
Another BASIC adventure game writer checking in. Thanks for sharing your story. It brought a smile to my face.
“Gets paid more” means single employee makes $100k, employee with a family makes $150k.

“Costs the company more” means they are both paid a salary of $100k, but the healthcare insurance for the employer with a family costs $50k extra.
I think a good starting point is to integrate the principles described in the Simple Made Easy[1] & Hammock Driven Development[2]. These are overarching first principles that help in designing and writing code, but also in communication & team work.

[1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Bill Gates Is the Most Interesting Man in the World
100 years ago the average adult (who dealt with information as we do today) probably spent 25 years of their life staring at paper.

It’s the content, not the medium, that matters.
Thanks! I built it to scratch an itch, you can follow more of the story on IH https://www.indiehackers.com/product/cartql

I'm considering open sourcing the API and building more examples on how you can embed this directly inside your GraphQL API with Apollo Federation.

The API is pretty basic right now but functioning, so thought I'd share.
I wish Scott was running Apple today not Tim Cook. I love skeuomorphic interfaces. Tim Cook is a failure in my opinion. There have been no interesting products under him, nor any compelling features added to existing products. He is simply coasting on the trajectory set by Steve Jobs.
it’s

%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z

as God intended!

(and i’m an american!)
This is correct. I mistakenly entered the wrong reply. I was referring to the 100 mile border zone. IT's not the same as the border crossing so I'm not sure why people continue to refer to it as being a rights free zone when it comes to CBP.
Sign on beach: "Guys, the stores will reopen sooner if you will just wear masks over your blowholes."
I'm reminded of an old Wired article about Steve Wozniak 'collecting' phone numbers. Pan Am (by mistake) and 888-8888. It's pretty far into the article, but the outcome was pretty funny: the number was unusable because...

https://www.wired.com/1998/09/woz/

[spoiler alert:
toddlers picked up the phone and randomly pressed buttons, often enough hitting the 8 key repeatedly. He got too many calls to be able to use the number.]
SP3 was their first experiment with "Connected Standby" and it showed. I had the same experience with sleep, as well as other problems like the wifi being unable to hold a connection. I wonder if newer models have gotten any better.
What exactly are you suggesting?

The woman that’s photograph appears in the article, “Lyndsay Tucker, a 25-year-old skin care consultant, who works at a Sephora beauty store in San Jose, Calif.” — is obviously a real person.
They solve most cases. I'm not sure what the clearance rate is, but as I recall it was pretty high.

But when you can beat a confession out of someone, that's not so hard to do.
I'm not surprised that Siri gets things like this wrong, unlike every traditional search engine. Each text based search engine returns more than one possible response, and if they return the wrong answer first, they can monitor how often people click on other answers, and use that to continously train their engine. Apple does not have that source of training data.

However, the fact that so many people here defend the result due to "context" is a bit interesting. I would think that from both a technical and business point of view it should be clear what that there is only one correct result of the query given. I would be surprised if more than 5% of people making the query world wide (or in the US for that matter) wide would be interested in anything but the time in London, UK.

Is there some kind of Stockholm syndrome involved?
NYC's data defines underlying illness as "disease, asthma, heart disease, a weakened immune system, obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease and cancer."

As I point out in the thread, even estimating 50% of people under 65 have an underlying illness (lets say thats 25% under 17, 50% 18-44, and 75% in 45-64 to roughly get us there) moves the "Under 65 healthy IFR" only up to 0.09%.
Site: https://openpaper.work/

Repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/paperwork
Games with the Best Replay Value
> I actually enjoy working in modern C++ much more than I did in Java

What do you like about working in C++ more than Java?

Generally, I hear from people working in C++ that it's the only tool for their job, and only use it because no other tool measures up (in a despairing tone). If you don't mind my asking, what do you use it for?
Yeah because the right to protest shouldn't be a thing and they should all bow down to the CCP. /s

It couldn't be clearer that if anything HK wants nothing to do with China.
Sounds to me like the problem is, that the company taking out the cannon to shoot at sparrows and that nobody seem to have bothered to provide working dev environments?

It feels common that people think they their every problem requires a planetary scale solution or one that handles every conceivable case that could occur before the heat death of the universe. Be that because your a startup and think you are going to need to support a hundred million concurrent users on launch day, or because your an enterprise and think because your are oh so important you need to use the same tools other important companies use.

My own anecdote: When we refactored our early stage app we had a huge mess with the Redis based queue system. It was one of the biggest sources of errors and a massive pain to troubleshoot or even to monitor what is going on. So we investigated in a bunch of different solutions including all the usual contenders, and we ended up with: Let's just ditch the messages / queues altogether for now and just do boring old cron like jobs invoking internal api endpoints in regular intervals. This made 9 out of 10 cases a lot easier to maintain, and for the remainder, while temporary more difficult, we introduced a queue again at a much later stage.

I'm not saying you shouldn't use and you can't benefit of RabbitMQ at small scales or any technology for that matter. But I think too often in tech decision making ones own or the companies perceived importance, what is cool or what would look good on a CV takes precedence over what really fits the problem in context.
This seems to be a symbioticaly developed messaging system.
The bees need the plants and the plants need the bees: so the been message them in case they are having a hard time.
Since if the bees die because of not enough pollen -> plants die also.

Bees probably release some special chemical through their saliva or whatever they have to message the plants that they are not some random animal eating it.
What is the largest node/process that is currently available? Does that large size mean the lowest cost for development? I assume the trade is that fewer chips are produced from a wafer, so lower development costs are related to higher unit costs.
Airbus A320 crashes into residential area of Karachi killing all 107 aboard
It's time to refactor London.
A signal we'll be seeing something in this space from Apple soon...
No, there are literal FPGAs in some TVs and monitors. It happens more often on early runs on new tech. You don't need to rename something else.
Assume you mean who "do" have comorbidities?
Just a reminder ... the Internet Archive is pretending it's a library, but unlike real libraries, it's lending out copies it doesn't actually own or have a license to lend.

Previously, if it owned 5 copies of a book, it would lend out only 5 digital copies at a time, under a system called Controlled Digital Lending: https://controlleddigitallending.org

Now, its National Emergency program does away with that. It might only own 5 copies of a book, but it will lend out an unlimited number of digital copies at a time.

It justifies this by saying that our nation's public libraries are closed right now, so it is filling the void.

But the Internet Archive doesn't have the authority to treat those copies sitting in public libraries as its own, for the purpose of digitally lending them out.

I know there are a lot of ways in which copyright laws and digital lending licenses have their own problems, and so there are many who think the Internet Archive is just giving copyright holders and publishers their comeuppance. But I think it's fair to say that they're doing it in a way that runs afoul of the law.
5G protection using “Holographic nano layer technology” in a USB stick
I recently found my copy of the Precomputer 1000 manual that I learned BASIC with around 1993. It's now mounted in a shadow box!
Do they even accept applications? The FIFA application process is apparently not very easy, but 211 national associations have still managed to join.
WiFi Ultraboost an incredibly small price