skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me the issue hasn't been losing things like the display or the touchpad as much as the ecosystem. The ability to copy and paste between my devices, the ability to receive a text that I can interact with, the ability to quickly switch my earbud connection between my phone and laptop, the ability to use one device to tell me where another device is or made a locating sound, the ability to use my tablet as an external display, etc
Yes. Also, %p isn't non-standard, however the conversion is implementation-defined.

(The reason why I used the word technically earlier was because on all common platforms int-pointers and void-pointers – and indeed all object pointers – have identical binary representation.)
Ugh, that list might be why my email address mail@[personal domain] is forbidden more and more often.
I don't know. I can feel a slight dependence on caffeine if I have been drinking a lot during some weeks and then stopping cold turkey (slight headache, possibly slightly more tired in a day or two) but it does not feel very addictive.

For a long period of time I only drank coffee during the week and not weekends, sometimes I stopped some summers and when I slept badly I stopped drinking coffee for a while. No problem at all with any of that.

I do like like the small energy burst in the morning when I'm working and I like the ritual when it is winter in Sweden it is dark and cold outside and you are freezing, then drinking a cup of coffee as you start up your computer is nice.
Not all web apps/websites need the same functionality. And not everyone wants shitty webapps [0][1], so desktop apps should not die.

[0]: https://drewdevault.com/2016/11/24/Electron-considered-harmf...

[1]:https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
what about banks make them so difficult to work with?
See also:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18466787

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406119

Show HN from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008
That was fun until we killed it :)
Avoiding the lock-in trap – The financial impact of perpetual support contracts
Matcha tea has a bunch of stuff that is supposed to suppress the negatives of caffeine and keep the positives.

Also the taste is strong enough to be a decent coffee replacement.
Is there any reason to believe the current line of Lenovo laptops shouldn’t be trusted?

I mean, an more or less than any other brand or manufacturer?
Actually 5.4 × 2; for 54 you have to enter 54E1 (5.4 × 10^1).
Comments on Mr. Somers aside, he clearly and explicitly already had a book club experience that frustrated him.
Neo4j?
I'm wrong, I seemed to remember many platforms not supporting them but a quick Google search reveals its just a foggy memory. I was probably thinking about ucontext actually.
Show HN: Find your coronavirus intelligence quotient
Jepsen: Zookeeper
Reading that book needs a support group, not a book club. It was strange, I think someone recommended the book to me, I started reading it, and immediately regretted the purchase. Then, by chance watched 'The End of the Tour' and realized who the author was. That attempt, I made it to the YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT so many times I lost count.
The book reminds me of reading unformatted code, something from a decompiler.
The proper way to make API calls in Flutter
> it’s basically unreadable to very most of developers

The ubiquity of parenthesis has a purpose - it lets you treat code as data. Your argument only makes sense if syntax choice were 100% based on taste. But it's not (simplicity of syntax brings with it practical features), so it's great that some people are exploring other options.

And it's not intrinsically less readable than say, something like: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.3/libstdc++/api/a0111...
>Hence what, for lack of a better name, I'll call the Python paradox: if a company chooses to write its software in a comparatively esoteric language, they'll be able to hire better programmers, because they'll attract only those who cared enough to learn it.

Better programmers deliver useful programs.
> This is based on her presentation and some dinner conversation at HPTS 2019, so I don't know if there's actually a paper I can point to. The gist of is that Paxos normally involves an arbitration phase where there are conflicting proposals, which adds a second pair of message delays. But if you relax the consensus problem to agreement on a set of proposals, rather than a single proposal, you don't need the arbitration phase. Instead of "who won", it becomes "everyone wins". Then you can impose an order on that set via, say, sorting, and iterate to get a replicated log.

This sounds very similar to atomic broadcast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_broadcast) where each node sends a single message and the process ensures that all nodes agree on the same set of messages. Not sure how it would fit with a log-oriented FSM, but it certainly sounds interesting.
Why would you classify a person as "young and healthy" if he appears to manifest a cytokine storm response (supposedly) to Covid-19?

Such a case is very unusual and I would question severely the use of "young and healthy" to describe such a person. Sorry if that seems harsh but naming is meaningful here.

So while there are relatively few Covid-19 patients and even fewer Covid-19 deaths, there are indeed a minuscule percentage of such cases. It's not worth worrying about for the average person.

Indeed that is the point: Covid-19 odds are so low that there is no reason for a normal intelligent person to be unduly concerned about catching Covid-19. Take precautions and go about your business. Truth is you're more likely to get killed in a car accident than by Covid-19.

The real problem may be characterised by the fact that half of the population has an IQ below 100. However as a society we've given up on eugenics, so that is a path not chosen!
So what are his calculations? Don't we have enough samples now for who did what when?
Does anyone prefer a barrel plug over USB-C?

I've owned many laptops, and the barrel plug on every one got loose over time. Sometimes slight, and power continued; but other times it was enough to require delicate jiggling to keep the power flowing; once or twice an accident was catastrophic, the plug and even the surrounding frame was damaged.

It's why I won't buy a Dell laptop, now that the other brands offer USB-C.
If enough opted out they would need to find another form of security theatre.
I just wish laptop designers would stop copying Macbook form factor.
The two fundamentally are different in ways that you are conflating. A hardware raid card will eject a disk that shows a single URE. Your zfs volume will happily correct the error and just report it as a minor statistic that is cleared on your next reboot.

Yes zfs is immune to the problem the zdnet article hyped up. Because it is immune by design in a way that is purposefully different from raid.
I wonder a bit why there is no player like amazon in the food business. I mean a completely integrated one from buying ingredients to cooking to delivering.
I’ve never belonged to an actual book club, but have followed along as a podcast I listen to did a virtual book club. They did it as the article suggests, reading a small portion of the book each week and discussing that one portion for around an hour and a half.

If anyone’s interested, it is the Grey Company podcast, which began as a podcast discussing the Lord of the Rings card game, but branched out to doing the afore mentioned read through of Lord of the Rings.

Also of interest is Tolkien Road, a podcast which reads through and discusses the Silmarillion and other Tolkien works in a bit by bit fashion.
Masks are not zero cost, they are emotionally and physically taxing. I not wearing a mask if I'm not sick.
Colorado sees 'significant declines' in air pollution
The meanings behind those stories go deeper than blame and have their own elegant source. There is a simple but powerful alegbra to the romance in stories.

The truth being complexity and randomness is just another part of the narrative.
What is mathematics? It helped Einstein to understand maths.
>Clearly, if war crimes were ever brought, regardless of the laws, commands, etc - it would have not resulted in being immune from prosecution

Actually one of the areas they have the most immunity. Bush passed the "American Service-Members' Protection Act," authorizing unlimited use of force/resources to free any US personnel being detained by the ICC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...
Maybe you could do something with 2 words that are short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and memorable. I was able to register an 8 letter .com like that (2x 4-letter words) a couple years ago.
Avastars – a Unique By algorithm for valuation of this blockchain art
Growing up in the US, I never heard it used that way. It could conceivably be engineer jargon.
Interesting to compare and contrast with Simon Tatham's method of implementing Co-Routines in C:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

Submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23293835

That's decades old, and actually used in PuTTY.
L-Theanine? goes great with coffee (not mixed, just taken near the same time) - smooths out the jitters. Probably why Tea is more 'calming'
Why would you ever trust a company that did that in the first place?
It's essentially a test suite for character encoding all throughout your application. If you input all those strings (e.g. send chat message) and they arrive incorrectly at some other end (e.g. other user receiving chat message) then there's a problem somewhere.
I think this means we're in agreement that it is probably so, but not necessarily so?

But still enough in the air to refrain from claiming biological inclination.
Many C implementations allow this without any assembly:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setjmp.h#Cooperative_multita...

(2007)
That would be pretty cumbersome to calculate. I guess you'd have to remember the intermediate result. On paper, since the calculator didn't have any memory function.
Me personally, I'd use "book club" for the social one, and "study group" for the academic one.

The author seems to be describing a study group, not a book club.
I don't want to spoil any joy of yours but this is in my experience pretty standard with most email providers.

With some you can do the + trick (which gmail probably still does) but i just have my domain as catchall and it works pretty great with blacklisting.
looked at those a while back. seem to be only available for clojure.
> go really got this right

It's also exciting to see that Java has taken the same view, and is well on its way towards delivering it (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom), or even improving on it (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Structured+Concur..., see also: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...)
One side project idea I am working on is a web application starter kit that may be up and running in 30 minutes, with more than 10 fundamental features for every web app. I think it can speed up the time to market of other web app based side projects. It is available at https://turbovar.com/turbovar/index.jsp
FWIW, the original implementation of Java (when it was known as Oak) used this trick to manage user level threading. There was also a some code to do the stack swap since you were in a virtual machine anyway, that stuff was all there to be adjusted.

Random meta note brenns10, the idiom for giving up the processor is 'yield' (rather than 'relinquish') it is common in cooperative systems.

That said, the code in Java that switched threads was called the 'trampoline' code since you bounced in, switched threads and bounced out.

And my last comment is that if you set up your scheduler in a way that it has a 'runnable' and 'sleeping' queue, you can do clever things like have a task sleep on a mutex or other conditional variable and wake up when that variable does what you're waiting for. It makes implementing network services that service multiple clients much cleaner.
I've merged the comments thither and rolled back the clock on that one.
And it's using Cloudflare! Hopefully it's Cloudflare --> Basement Closet. Lol.
I honestly don’t think we know yet. I think most resources are being pumped into things that are actionable.

I’m not trying to fear-monger. But if people want to come up with “alternative” statistics, I think they need to be justifiable. There’s been a lot of debate around cases vs deaths, and our margin of error on each.

IMHO unless they can make “potential years lost” at least as accurate as any of our working figures, all they’re presenting is “it doesn’t matter, they’re just old people” masquerading as intelligence.

That we can’t properly quantify this is precisely my problem.

(To be clear, I don’t think any of these metrics should be linked to lockdown. Personally, my entirely uneducated, armchair opinion is that the primary metric for this should be the percentage capacity of medical facilities. All I ask is that we figure out how best to make solid numbers actionable, rather than how to reinvent the numbers to suit our cause.)
Masks are nasty and I hate them. Most people using them have no idea how to use them and seem to think wearing a mask is sort of like wearing your +2 Item Of Immunity from The Game Of Covid19 and you don't need to do anything differently. They just magically help, no matter how much stupid stuff you do.

My son said he saw someone wiping down a shopping cart with a wipe. It fell on the floor and and they picked it back up and kept wiping down the cart with it.

This is not unlike how many people relate to their masks.
A very interesting problem to solve. “Who determines truth? You do!” Based upon who we trust to know and relay these truths.

That’s the problem with fact checking. It leaves the “powers that be” in control to narrate what the truth is.

The only “real” solution I can come up with is that ultimately every individual needs to know and understand that truths generally don’t exist. There are usually multiple sides to every story. We need a mass awakening of more open thinking and researching into stories by many individuals. Individuals need access to unbiased information (looking at you google) so they can research multiple sides and hopefully can see for themselves who is trustworthy and who is really biased or just dumb.

The issue with “fact checking” is that it’s actually designed to erode that type of thinking. It’s designed to say “well these are indisputable facts” and the lazy (e.g. normal) user believes it even more. The reader, however, should still be thinking critically and be open to other interpretations. This can be so easily weaponized and it’s already happening on places like Facebook and Google.
> There were a lot of radiologists who were concerned.

Would those be the same group of people who are "concerned" about 5G towers today? You can always find a small group of people who are "concerned" about anything you like. The press uses this for nearly every such story they publish. Without statistics quantifying that "a lot" the statement is meaningless. And even if you have the statistics, there being "a lot" of them is not a guarantee that they were right. One would need to present evidence for their concern as well to be treated seriously. Such evidence does not exist, since airplane flights themselves are a source of radiation exposure.

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/DZqWhneDEMxElDzz7ZiUk0Jv93w=...
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> companies pay programmers ridiculous salaries because the working conditions are so hated.

I think any blue-collar worker would be laughing his ass off at this statement.

> paid about as well as dentists, and they still often quit after a couple years. This is way above the $75K happiness threshold.

Fuck-you-money actually enables this sort of freedom, since you're less scared of going jobless for a few months thanks to all the fat you've stored. So might as well quit and think about things for a while. Over certain levels, the meaning of one's job can take priority over immediate compensation.

> We literally can't pay them enough to stay working for us!

In the end, everyone deep down would rather not have to work for someone else, or to not work at all. Programmers in tech hotspots are lucky enough to actually be able to do it, and pretty often too, without any serious repercussion. For many, this is a golden age the likes of which we've never seen.

> In what industries do you commonly see managers threatening or bullying workers?

All of them - we wouldn't have unions otherwise. There is a reason the word "boss" has negative connotations.
On the Sinclair it is in fact

5 + 4 +

because there is no ENTER key — the first ‘+’ is adding 5 to 0.
You can draw more power on some laptops than usbc can offer
Not sure why this got downvoted. I'm familiar with Church encoding but not Rust's type system. Armed with that knowledge, I can read the source and deduce what the foreign syntax means. To somebody who knows neither, identifying this pattern can be helpful -- without that, they can read Rust docs and puzzle through the weird construction. With the information, they can read up on Church encoding at an abstract level, and then recognize it in the source -- which can help untangle the Rust syntax.
>Coffee drinkers have been found to have lower cadmium in tissues; coffee making removes heavy metals from water.

How does that work? Where do the metals go?

Searching in the rest of the article I find:

>Coffee drinkers, for example, have been found to have lower levels of cadmium in their kidneys than people who don’t use coffee, and coffee is known to inhibit the absorption of iron by the intestine, helping to prevent iron overload.

I'm immediately suspicious of the way this is framed (I know many people who suffer from lack of iron, I guess they should avoid coffee). And what about the heavy metals then?
As it relates to torture, war crimes apply regardless of if a party believed they were acting legally.

As for the case you cited, it was a civil suit, therefore ruling only covers civil law, not criminal. That said, does not protect "the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law". [1]

All Presidents are fully aware by law their powers are limited, no reasonable official would claim otherwise. No reasonable person or official would claim their actions were legal, hence why they knowingly hid them from FISA & Congress.

[1] Malley v. Briggs, 475 U.S. 335, 341 (1986).
Back in Amazon I found some ancient code written in Common Lisp. Doubt any production services left, but I updated the build system to support Clozure CL. My contribution in $BIGCORP :)
renting small servers...much more sense even for small companies

No. At one time over 10 years ago, I had a dedicated server with one of the hosting companies. They charged me $225/month.

I moved to AWS and my cost dropped to ~$30/month. Even now, 10 years later, my total AWS bill for primarily EC2 and RDS services that runs an application that pays my bills is ~$75 per month.

If my company suddenly went viral and had a bunch of new customers, I could scale up instantly.
Not really. Any and all exploits into iOS require physical access via the lightning port.
> Is that commonly used in the US?

It's commonly-enough used that it appears in most dictionaries of American English I can find easily, but rarely enough used that I've barely ever seen it in use and never heard it in conversation.
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thx! Do you talk about my kind of philosophy or my product?
There is more in coffee than caffeine. For example cafestol is a substance present in unfiltered coffee that is known to cause health problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol
Hi Kyle, thanks for the Elle :) I want to use Elle to check long histories of transactions over small set of keys with read dominant workload, the paper recommends to use lists over registers but when the history becomes long on the one hand it becomes too wasteful to read the register's history on each request on the other hand the Elle's input becomes very large. E.g. when each read should return the whole register's history the size of history grows O(n^2) compared to the case when the reads return just the head.

So I'm curios how would you have described the ability of finding violations with Elle using read-write registers with unique values vs the append-only lists?
Honestly, just go rummage through the links in r/covid19 on reddit. Skip the comments altogether since the audience there is becoming mostly optimists. Skip r/coronavirus for the opposite reason, all the doomers congregate there. But at least in r/covid19 the moderators are very aggressive in preventing posts that are not some kind of plausible scientific source. It's useful to see the latest studies as they come out, without any editorializing. But you do need to read them critically, since most have not yet been peer reviewed.

You can also learn a lot from the occasional scientific commenters, they are quick to explain why a serosurvey showing 5% prevalence using a test with 98% specificity means the published results aren't worth much.
Please don't copy/paste comments on HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio and makes for pain when we go to merge duplicate threads. I've consolidated all the replies to your comment under the other one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269802).

If you want to refer to something you posted elsewhere, please use a link. Better still, when you see a split discussion, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can merge them. We'll make sure your comment ends up in the winning thread.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
As the article notes, Amazon tried it and bailed out (presumably because it was not worth the trouble)
Can an exogenous molecule that was so adaptive be missed this bad and now consuming it will just fill that gap we had for millions of years?

Maybe we didn't have a gap for millions of years. The African kola nut contains caffeine and is supposedly a popular stimulant.
Where are you hiring developers for $10K? Even in a medium cost of living area you’re looking at $170K/year fully allocated.