skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legacy main frame technology, homie.

Banks, hospitals, aerospace industry, retail operations, states and governments mostly run on IBM main frames.

These entities refuse to upgrade because “it just works”. IBM charges an arm and a leg to these companies because they know they can’t migrate off.

I happened to come across an invoice from IBM to our company and each server/appliance cost $250K or more. I believe the total cost for the order was a few million dollars. This doesn’t even include the support contracts.
It's practically obscene that anyone thinks that Trump's mention should in any way affect their thinking about a drug. People are dying--let science run its course unhindered.
The study say nothing on what stade of infection the treatment was applied. The HCQ + AZT treatment was shown effective on initial infection stages, before heavy symptoms appears.
Ask HN: What are your goals for the 2020's?
> Irrational behavior in both directions is indefensible.

Agreed that any political side is capable of false narratives, but that's hardly what's going on here. Nobody with the fundamental desire for a treatment for themselves and those they care about should they fall severely ill would want any proven effective treatment to be dismissed for political reasons, whether that is hydroxychloroquine or anything else.

The problem is that what should have been left as an investigation into a medication with no political colors was turned into a political wedge by the US president who seemingly aspired to use it to regain relevance during this crisis.

The same thing has also happened for the various promotions of very preliminary vaccines, or of a fictional nationally deployed testing website that was claimed by POTUS to be under development by Google. This follows the basic principle guiding this administration and its leader that there is no such thing as bad publicity. And to a certain extent, they might even be right. Time will tell.
> And yes, ALL parents invest in their kids' success

Categorically false. Generic reader here, and I grew up in an abusive home with parents that could literally not have given two shits about my future, success or emotional well-being. For you to assert that they ALL do this is either an incredibly sheltered or willfully ignorant point of view.
I worked at UHG’s tech arm called Optum and layoffs/churns were very common. Entire teams can just disappear off the floor without a moment’s notice. They’ve offshored most of their work to other countries and most of the offices stateside are ghost buildings. UHG execs are just focused on its stock ticker.
I heard about it from the React community on Twitter and I've been using it exclusively for system design interviews. I love the look of 'whoa cool' when candidates see my cursor moving around the screen :)
I understand why they try to reuse keywords and symbols, and why they intentionally pick really ugly keywords when they add new ones. I can’t say they’re wrong, but I still find it annoying.
Why Corporate IT Sucks (2009)
You're right, I was just confused until I saw the figures where they separated them.
Why would you need to specify your location? You can just ask "How is the weather?" or "What will be the weather like tomorrow?"
Boot times are a funny thing - we don't boot our computers as often as we did our 386 PCs. I often boot my computers only when there is a kernel upgrade that requires the OS to be reloaded. My main laptop hasn't booted in 28 days (but got suspended numerous times). The corporate issue Mac did it last week (and also suspends every time it's moved). The Xeon under my desk says it's 52 days - I remember it had a kernel update. The VMs may have longer uptimes, since they were suspended and restarted - the OpenSolaris one must think it's up for years.

Last time I booted a serious server, the OS came up in about a minute or so. The application took something close to two hours to be fully primed and within performance guidelines. Years ago a RabbitMQ decided to take 9 hours to fully restart. We had to add queue server redundancy to the application more quickly than I would advise anyone to try.
Literally everything does CRUD. Easier is a mirage you'll never reach. I say add Snippets for common things and more file generating and keep cracking with Rails. You'll speed up in no time.
Well, I think popular in the context of Internet meant something different then as it does now. But yes, gopher seemed then just like 'nother service, while WWW was a revolution in the mid-nineties.
More specifically, the text of the license says you can't offer any service that is "primarily a database storage or operations product", even one that doesn't allow schema modifications.

If that wasn't what you intended to prohibit, you should probably fix the wording of section 3.21(i).
I would give anything to have my Mac be fast again. I have no idea what changed but even 10.14 feels a whole lot slower than it was earlier. Haven't upgraded to 10.15 seeing all the negative reviews it is getting when it comes to perf. Apple needs to seriously give perf a priority for Mac. Do they really expect developers to use a Mac to develop Apps when it is slow as molasses? I shudder to think what will happen to the Apple ecosystem if developers migrate to another OS for development. Apple will come crashing down. I don't wish for that to happen but looks like there is absolutely no one at Apple focused on making it better.
Beats me - it's a common problem, though: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40251201/upgrading-intel.... The only thing that ever worked was uninstalling and reinstalling the whole thing.
Check out what would GC Platform spit out if we used it to code TodoMVC app
We all have a story, let me tell mine
“ Another way to reduce the delays is by disabling System Integrity Protection. I say reduce, because I still do get some delays even with SIP disabled, but the system does overall feel much faster, and I would strongly recommend anyone who thinks their system is sluggish to do the same.”

Nope.
That is true :)

Color is a great example of how "low-order" approximations are very useful, and how quickly it can get very hard once you want to go a bit beyond that.
I've heard that from an insect's perspective, witch hazel tastes terrible and/or isn't that nutritious.

But it gets away with it because it's the only game in town. Nothing else is blooming at that time, and if you haven't gone dormant (or woke up too early) it's witch hazel pollen or nothing at all.
Hi all! I made this app in the past week to make it easier for me to view my Pi-hole network stats and toggle them on and off. It's got a lot of features I see Pi-hole users asking for on the internet, so I hope it satisfies everyone!
I wonder how many of these bots are purposefully pushing an agenda vs bots that might just track trending topics and tweet related things to gain followers/retweets maybe for advertising purposes? Has anyone analyzed other trending topics to see what proportion are bots?
EFF to UN: Mass Border Surveillance Hurts Vulnerable Communities
I think it was more like the bottom 5%.

The theory is by cutting the bottom and always hiring you constantly improve your workforce.

The reality is then you will always fill reqs, sometimes as quickly as possible, to make sure there is a sacrifice for the gods. Perversely, a team of high-performers is actually punished, as everyone is also ranked against each other, so even if you have the top 10 performers in the company, one or more of them may be fired and will often have their compensation effected (less/no RSUs etc.).

Certainly that was how it felt about 5 years ago, not sure about today.
Up until the release of Catalina, I've always upgraded to the latest version of macOS within a month or two. But some of the changes this time is really stopping me from upgrading.

As of Catalina, there's no sane way to install the Nix package manager without losing functionality because macOS now disallows creating new files in the root directory[1]. Nix stores its packages in the /nix directory and it's not possible to migrate without causing major disruptions for existing NixOS and other Linux users. This is too bad, since apart from Nix being a nice package manager, it also provides a sane binary package for Emacs. The Homebrew core/cask versions only provides a limited feature set[2][3].

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/2925

[2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/31510

[3]: https://github.com/caldwell/build-emacs/search?q=support+is%...
Have you tried 19.10 or 20.04? Before that I had a lot of issues with my Dell XPS 9560 because of optimus, but it got a lot better in those versions. YMMV but it actually worked out of the box with nary a hint of manual configuration when I installed 20.04 recently.

Edit: should note, when I say work I mean you can switch between GPUs/launch an app on the dedicated GPU with ease.
I don’t know how Jai will do this. But my gut feeling says that the meta programming capabilities will could help doing this sort of thing. My understanding is that it enables one to say „build my program in this particular way“ expressed within Jai itself.

Please correct me if I‘m completely off.
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The only time I’ve seen similar delays is when my mac decides it needs to do something on an external disk that needs to spin up. I have a 12Tb external that can take 10 seconds to spin up, so get a 10 second stall waiting for I/O once in a while.

I do wonder if the author has something similar going on, either with a directly attached disk or a network share.
Right but until this actual research surfaces I wouldn't be too concerned about the anecdote particularly when the data from actual research shows two out of three parts of the suggested treatment to be actively harmful.

I don't need any answer your points because you've not given any evidence to suggest they should be taken seriously versus the evidence that two-thirds of the treatment you suggest is still quite harmful.
Content on Stack Overflow isn’t technically offered freely. It’s offered under a specific license with specific conditions.
With Apple degrading the developer experience with each release and Microsoft working hard on things like WSL(2) and the new "package manager" I think within a year or 2 lots of developers will go back to Windows-based machines.
I don't. But I imagine I would if it was my job.
I don't know if it works there, but siri couldn't understand one of my contacts names

When it read back super incorrectly from an alias, I said something to the effect of "could you pronounce that correctly?" and it asked me to say it

Since then, it's understood that person's name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It really needs to expose the option to train those easily
Thanks for "Design Management moved to Core" https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/05/22/gitlab-13-0-rel...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062:

> dang 6 days ago [–]

> Ok, you guys, this isn't the first time we've heard this request (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). I'm willing to do it (edit: not to change the default! just to add the option). It's just that any CSS issue that goes more than a quarter-inch deep is equally outside my expertise and my interest, so help would be welcome.

> We can add CSS to https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css for prefers-color-scheme: dark, but that leaves open the question of specifically what CSS to put in there. Anyone who wants to make a suggestion is welcome to. Post it in this thread so others can comment, or email it to hn@ycombinator.com. I've roped Zain, YC's designer, into helping with this, and we'll come up with something.

> p.s. If you're inclined to post "this is 2020, how come HN doesn't $thing", remember our motto: move slowly and preserve things: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... When I say slowly I mean slowly. This is also called alligator energy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442716
Supplying superlatively unqualified contractors to run IT at blue-chips.
Does gitlab offer a stripped down version with only vanila 'git' ?
ICO (UK privacy regulator) suspends GDPR enforcement blaming coronavirus
what happens when the states run out of money though, that is ultimately the problem. how long are the states going to be able to keep up without federal intervention?
+1!

Ha, initially I thought this sounded too close to the previous name, but actually it fits nicely: Homer was blind, whereas the input is slowly fading out and only 3-4 lines are readable. Neat!
~24 hrs ago Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23255283

~24 hrs ago Nearly Half of the Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be Bots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23258169

~24 hrs ago Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259645

~24 hrs ago Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23261815

~14 hrs ago CMU Researchers: Nearly Half of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Bots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23268521

~46 mins ago Half of the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23274079
The funny thing is, Linux has amazing User Experience if you go all-in on the latest KDE and its associated tooling.
Why should someone use TimescaleDB over ClickHouse for time-series/analytics workloads?
Yeah, I think there's a lot of potential in hybrid models like this. You actually do see these things out in the wild -- GUI builders come to mind -- but they're not a replacement for a proper programming language.

As it turns out, the written word has some genuine advantages over other media? But on that point, the wall of text you see in published prose is an artifact of the printing press -- prior to that it was unusual to have long texts that didn't include little sketches, diagrams, illustrations...
How do you think this compares with Kind, which seems to be the most popular way to spin up throwaway clusters?
Actual quote from a major insurance company CIO to me: "We've tried to migrate off the mainframe every few years for two decades. Every attempt has failed."
Agreed! That's why we are working on it this release - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15356
The trick is to go all-in on KDE if you want that Windows feeling where things just work.
Windows is still very much subpar, even with support for CUDA in WSL2. Loading packages is terribly slow in Windows, for some reason. Also don't get me started on package management (no, Anaconda doesn't cut it).
I am wondering why editing the original title was allowed in this case?
> The solution for it is, sadly, more data.

I don't see why that would be necessary, since a human does not need to know everything about you or have access to everything you've ever communicated to anyone to guess accurately that when you ask about "London" you probably mean London, England.
>a handful of systems (13.56 million Wii U's, 101.63 million Wii's, 32.93 million N64's)

I get that you're speaking relatively, but you and I have a very different idea of what qualifies as "a handful". Also, you could arguably add 154.02 million DS systems and 75 million 3DS systems if you include the slightly improved Super Mario 64 DS.
Genetic evidence of widespread variation in ethanol metabolism among mammals
> IIRC the big thing that changed with 10.15 for CLI applications is that BSD-userland processes (i.e. ones that don't go through all the macOS Frameworks, but just call libc syscall wrappers like fopen(2)) now also deal with sandboxing, since the BSD syscall ABI is now reimplemented in terms of macOS security capabilities.

Is this actually new in macOS 10.15? I seem to recall this being a thing ever since sandboxing was a thing, even all the way back to when it was called Seatbelt.

> That means that any CLI process that "walks" the filesystem is going to generate huge amounts of sandboxd traffic, which bottlenecks sandboxd and so slows down the caller process.

Is this not implemented in the kernel as an extension? I thought the checks went through MAC framework hooks. Doesn't sandboxd just log access violations when told to do so by the Sandbox kernel extension?

> Unlike macOS app-bundles, regular BSD-userland executable binaries don't have a capabilities manifest of their own, so they don't start with any process-local capabilities (with some interesting exceptions, that I think involve the binary being embedded in the directory-structure of a system framework, where the binary inherits its capabilities from the enclosing framework.)

I am fairly sure you can just embed a profile in a section of your app's binary and call the sandboxing Mach call with that…
Its still very much in development, but we're building https://whiteboard.systems/

Its based on the idea that for most system diagrams, you just need boxes, text and arrows. everything else is superfluous. Its collaborative by default so you can invite someone to join you with the URL. The tools aren't discoverable yet, so to use it:

- option(⌥) + click to create a box

- option(⌥) + drag to create a grouping box

- select a box and option(⌥) + click another to draw an arrow

- select a box and type to edit text

would very much appreciate feedback! (email in profile)
>Linux on the desktop has been my daily driver for years

Same for me, I've even been a maintainer of one (ONE! lol) AUR package.

>especially if you can't really do without a decent UI\UX.

Outside of a few Electron-base apps and maybe a few native gtk\kde one - everything looks like a work of high schooler. Nobody thinks about the UI\UX.

Compare Things3 and something from linux word. Or Bear. Or Twitterrific\Tweetbot.

But go no further than your system's settings: https://imgur.com/a/p0kl7wM - wtf is this? You have a window that takes 80% of your screen some huge ass controls that still take some 20% of the the whole view. Who thought this was a good idea?

Gnome 3 is even worse (I loved gnome2 back in 2009)
I was about to link this exact video if it turned out this was an actual anti-5G video. I'd forgotten the original title, so it didn't click.

I love Mehdi Sadaghdar's work.
How the Cruise Industry Became Synonymous with Disaster
The UK market was already dead thanks to IR35 and while that was postponed due to the coronavirus, the market is still very bad.

Haven't had any late payments so I'm lucky on that side, but sourcing projects is a major challenge. I've been out of work for a month now.
Digital Transformation Is Inevitable
I started building my own with a friend because nothing else had what I wanted (great freehand drawing and text tools) and was cheap. We've only just finished the MVP, so feedback would be very helpful!

https://browserboard.com/

I have no idea if it'll hold up under load, I guess let's see. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You can share the URL to collaborate with someone else.
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Thanks for sharing this, I like this idea a lot. I had been playing around with using whktml to make image files out of the ChartSS.css charts for situations that require them. Having a web service like this is a cool solution.
Lol that Unity ECS ends up in a 'getting wrong' article considering that ECS style programming has been the direction that game development has been moving for a good while now.

At some point sooner than later people will be complaining about how they can't do ECS in Unreal.
Thanks for linking the actual article. Interesting to see them using such a large RRC roll-off and still get an amazing spectral efficiency.
This breaks the site guideline against insinuating astroturfing, etc., without evidence. Please read the rules and stick to them when posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Edit: it looks like we've had to ask you about this before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19473700).

There's good reason for that rule: the vast majority of such accusations are pure imagination (we can say this because we've looked at the data extensively for years), and meanwhile they poison the community. If you think you're seeing a case of actual abuse, you should be emailing hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting about it here. That's in the guidelines too.

Plenty of past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Every reference I've seen to Hydroxychloroquine in the media is quick to denounce it as a dangerous, discredited treatment. So I think this is not just irrationality on the part of the left, but an example of the gated institutional narrative suppressing ideas. Not to take away from the irrationality of blind faith in anything Trump says seen on the right.

If you look at the experts, they're still designing studies to test it, and there are some papers suggesting it does work. The jury is very much still out on this subject.
Hell, I live in the UK and I can't stand 24-hour time ("military time"). I have to convert in my head every single time by subtracting 12 to figure out what the time actually is.

I hate 24 hour time so much. I won't use software that can't be configured to AM/PM.
It gets even worse. I was doing some web dev in the last couple months and I noticed that my "localhost" was ridiculously slow. At first, I thought it was NPM/Gulp but then I noticed that it behaved irrationally, sometimes it is slow and sometimes it works.

The problem was: Parental Control. Apparently, every request was checked and thus slowed the whole thing down. Needless to say, a couple days at least were wasted in this.
It's the original spirit/sentiment behind patent law and copyright law. Copyright sort of lost the thread on that one over the course of its extensions, but in the case of the book the "source code" to construct the book is very similar to the contents of the book and a limited copyright term was supposed to imply that eventually the public would have access to it after the brief monopoly rights granted to the creators of the work.

As copyright pushed to things beyond books that also made it easy to forget that original "open source" idealism behind copyright. It's tougher to build a new movie out of the components of a published movie than to build books from the components of published books.

Patent law is where the idea was applied to something that needed "source control preserved": describe an invention in complete detail in a public registry so that others can recreate and get a powerful limited monopoly on it, but as soon as that limit hits everyone should be able to recreate it.

Software patents have long been a mockery of that original spirit of patent law, but "open source projects by companies get stronger piracy protection/what have you for the first X years of their registered life" is really what software patents should have been in the first place, based on the original goals of what patents were for.
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As in just git? https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/misc/git/accessing-remote...
Google Slides and share desktop on Zoom. No need to complicate it with yet another piece of software.

Powerpoint and Slides are perfectly capable for drawing diagrams, or whiteboarding. Zoom screen share is low enough latency and you're already using it for voice comm.
A family member of mine has to deal with their Phoenix payroll disaster regularly and directly because they work for the government. The rest of Canadians still had to deal with the price tag in terms of noticeably affecting the national debt.
They don't even have to fire anyone. They can just freeze hiring and hire more outside SV (which seems to be what they're doing).
In 10 years 90% of their developers would work outside SV.
This is only for the parts of the code that are licensed under the Timescale license (most code is not).

Personally, I don't have a problem with this, and think it encourages users to upstream their changes.